My ONLY complaint is that I read this in one day and now I have to wait for the next one...uhg. Once again, DJ takes us on a journey of hope, failure, frustration, endurance, determination and the incredible human spirit. DJ takes the time to build characters and get us emotionally involved. The ending left me pacing back and forth in my living room...facing the fact that I will have to wait for the next book. I can get these for free as a Prime Member but I choose to pay, that is how good these are. If you read any negative reviews, ignore them, they are idiots looking for a reason to complain. They would be the infected in the books. Once again, this would be an absolute home rum as a mini series or show on an edgy network (not the lame 3).

UPDATE-D.J. Seriously....can you please get the next one out????? Come on!!!!!

The Remaining is a story of a man (one of 48 "coordinators") who is placed is placed in a bunker every time there is a potential for a "Life as we know it" altering event. Lee and his dog Tango have been in the bunker before - after 9/11 and after the Japan earthquakes and nuclear meltdown... The bunker is a nice place - fully stocked with all the comforts of home and everything that he would need to survive.

Every day, his superior officer checks in and tells him what is going on "upstairs". If the check in is missed, after 48 hrs, then he is to open the "mission box" and follow the instructions after an additional 30 days in lock down.

The author really builds the tension in the first part of the book - I actually was feeling claustrophobic and stopped reading to take the dogs outside for a while because the walls were closing in after his officer missed the check in and Lee started feeling anxious as well.

Lee must now fulfill his mission of connecting with survivors to rebuild and restore the nation but of course, that never goes as planned. No more details because those would be spoiler alerts but I will say that Lee isn't the super solider that you would expect in this type of book - he makes mistakes, things do not go smoothly, and I am ready to see what happens in the next book of the series...

This is not a "zombie" book per say - living breathing running people who have been attacked by a virus that turns them crazy and violent and they can still use tools. And, of course, we have the raiders, the idiots, the rapists, and all the crazy "non infected" that come crawling out like cockroaches to add to the excitement.

Now if only Lee had followed the rules....

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