Surviving the Collapse: EMP Survival Guide for Power Outages & Disaster Preparedness - Essential Prepper Book for Off-Grid Living & Emergency Scenarios

Well.I had a grand time with SURVIVING!I liked the excellent character development.The superb character growth and evolution.The story arc.The climax.I discovered a few niggles:* Flying a small aircraft below 12,000ft above sea level is usually good without supplemental oxygen.Then 747 captain pilot lady 'descends to 14,000ft', with her shot son, while piloting an antique aircraft.Nope.* While piloting the small antique aircraft with dead-reckoning and zero instruments, the captain pilot lady manages to maneuver the aircraft through a war-zone, above the no-fly zone of District Of Columbia, while performing emergency medical care on the recently shot child.Are you sure about that...* The child takes a rifle blast at contact distance.The cartridge could be a blank, would the muzzle blast pulverize everything inside the torso?* Excluding the Hudson River canyons, the Appalachian and Allegheny mountains of this story range from 1,000ft above sea level to 3-4,000ft above sea level.Despite this technicality, the 747 captain pilot lady descends her antique aircraft from the irresponsible (and unlikely...) >14,000ft through 500ft == during a blizzard == while looking for a place to crash after mis-managing her fuel.Ouch.Niggles aside, this was a rollicking good time.Going in, we know the convicts need extermination.We knew a few heroes need extreme sacrifice(s).We knew the story needs 'a hero journey', both for protags and antags.All this and more, SURVIVING provides.Yes, SURVIVING has weird typographical errors and blatant mis-use of words, occasionally inserting bizarrely inappropriate words == 'leaving the aircraft, she protruded from the door...' is one fine example.And, of course, I am vastly amused by the inappropriate mis-use of apostrophe's.I can see the author invested an enormous amount into a great story.Would running it past some commercial pilots be a good idea?Might hearing some critiques from weapons people be a great idea?And maybe, possibly, talk with a few convicts and correctional officers to get the concept of the correctional system?SURVIVING is a great story.SURVIVING is flawed by rookie mistakes.I will read more from this author.