People in the South know what a generator is. By now, you'd think they'd have dozens of windmills up and running, or some paddle wheels hooked up to alternators, and certainly some emergency power via one of the many running motors. WTH, they've had running cars since day two, so they could've had power since day two. It's a year after, they still have no electricity, and their approach is to read about Tesla and build a dam with hand-built generators. There's the manual drill for the dentist, the switchboard dug out of someone's basement, and they can make ether. I thought technology was discussed pretty well in One Second After, but things seem pretty superficial here. The new guys are Evil, with a capital 'E'. The conflict with the new administrator is so black and white, that it's uninteresting. Yes, we get the occasional history reference, but he's like a bull in a china shop all the time. His initial trip to see the new administrator was so over the top, that it was hard to listen to - it just doesn't seem like the same old John. John is FAR less astute in this book than he was in One Second After. While the first book was well crafted, this one almost seems to have been written someone else - someone doing their own version of a follow up story. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

One year after william forstchen