Was he tempted to drink and to use? You bet your ass. But every day that he spent around Kyle, he steeled himself even more and pushed himself to be a better man. He would rock in his bed at night in the darkness, holding himself and cry like a baby. He wanted a hit. He wanted a drink. He wanted something to cocoon himself and rock him to sleep.

[…]

Josh had been watching the news with Marla and Kyle for the last few days, even though he wasn’t much for news. He’d seen the unemployment numbers rising to record levels, the massive layoffs and store closings. They’d watched the stock market plummet and inflation skyrocket. And this morning the banks had closed on the east coast, those closings were making their way west. American citizens were waking up to frozen bank accounts and ATM cards that didn’t work anymore. They were scared. Marla was scared. And Kyle was scared.

Welcome to another run of the mill apocalypse story. This one is actually book 2 in the series so some of the characters already had time to shine in Book 1. With that in mind, I embarked on a journey so drab and weary, that only the big highlights remain: moving west as zombies cause a financial collapse and people are attacking each other on all sides.

This is not The Walking Dead or The Stand. This is a simple teen journey story with very little to go on other than it’s an ongoing story and there’s been some bad stuff happening in the past. I couldn’t get past the third chapter. DNF