Deep Winter

Much like Boyd Craven's Good Fences, Deep Winter also features a protagonist who miraculously has the good fortunes to have a garage and barn containing virtually every need and desire for thirteen people when the earthquake hits Spokane and follow on economic collapse takes down the country.

I find novels where the character has literally everything for the unfolding survival situation a less interesting than others, there's no real struggle per se, yes he has to move into his barn because the house is damaged and things are pretty crap but nearly every adversity faced results in going to the basement, shed, or an outbuilding and grabbing one of the multitude of things he has stored away. I get that there are people out there like this, show more but I feel like people having literally everything (excluding livestock) would be in the extreme minority.

Asides for this, it's a pretty alright novel if you're not expecting much in the way of character depth. There's a multitude of religious references but it seemed to manage not to become preachy which is good.

There was a small plot error where the main character gets a struggled to get a fold up trailer out of a poor storage position, then parks it in a far more accessible place, only for it to be than back at the original position ~100 pages later for them to struggle all over again getting it out. Not that big a deal but noticeable.

Overall, entertaining but nothing outstanding. show less