AThomas,

I was not planning to “defend my work” against your review but as you seem intent to get everyone on twitter to read it, I will go ahead and add my rebuttal. To do this I will take your review, piece by piece.

“I had chosen to read Plan and Prep: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse by Alex Newton based on some recommendations. While the book covered a lot of great information I did not like it.”

This is a good start, but you fail to mention who recommended the book and why. You simply state it was “recommended” but you “didn’t like it”. 1 point for me.

“There are a lot of great points in this book, but to me there was really two separate books in one. The first part covered the fictional Bill Jones family,who is not inspired by the Bill Jones that reads here to the best of my knowledge, and different calamities that they encounter.”

In this section you list that there are a “lot of great points in this book”. 1 point for me.

“There are great examples made by the author as he learns from a house fire and how he could be more prepared for future things. In helps out as they suffer from a flash flood. Again these are all good points to learn from. The next problem was a flu pandemic that ended up killing millions of Americans.”

Twice in this paragraph you state that there are a lot of good points in this book. 2 points for me.

“The author lost me when the recovery from that was contained in about 4 paragraphs. I believe his intentions were to cover scenarios and not focus on the after effects, but there have been several novels written covering just a flu pandemic. I would have liked to seen more details about recovery from an event.”

To answer the question, I didn’t feel the need to hash out the daily routine of someone living at their PSS location for the months during the pandemic outbreak and the recovery. I think common sense and the information provided would allow a reader to assume that Bill and his family maintained themselves at their PSS until it was safe to leave. The narrative was about them, not the rest of the world.

“The last great obstacle is a bout fighting the Zombie Flu based on an act of terrorism. It seems that our family once again defies the odds and makes it through the event. I would like to see a little more reality in the books I read. This covers the first 45% of the book per my Kindle.”

In this part I am not sure which part you are referring to being “unrealistic”. However, it seems it is not the Zombie Flu that you find unbelievable, but the survival of Bill’s entire family. I apologize if you felt that all of the members of the family surviving was a bit far-fetched….during a Zombie Apocalypse.

“The rest of the book covers the authors personal opinions on everything from types of Zombies, Survival Basics, and how different areas of the country would be affected for different events. There is some very useful information contained in this section.”

Again, you state clearly there is valuable information in this section of the book. 1 point to me.

“I finished reading the book and can say that I did not care for it. The author delivered a well written book. It contained a lot of great information, but I believe that the combination of the storyline and how to was not what I wanted to read. If they were in standalone formats they would probably do better for me, but I felt like there was a lot more development and storyline development that could be done with the Jones Family.”

Here’s the whopper. To paraphrase you believe the author delivered a well written book containing a lot of great information, but you didn’t like it and are giving it a poor review because of the following:
1) No one in the family died.
2) There was “too much?” informaiton included?
3) You think it should have been two books.
4) You believe I should have developed more of the family’s story.

To sum up my opinion of your review, I would say it is confusing and it’s intent is questionable. You did not mention to me at all the intent to review my work until after a long and drawn out twitter disagreement between us regarding the need for purchasing precious metals for trading. You clearly state in your review that the book has a lot of good information and it is well written, but you “did not care for it” because…of the way it’s written.

If you did not like the book, that’s fine. Not everyone will like what everyone else writes. However, if you are going to review something, and post it up all over twitter, at least have the decency to properly review and come up with valid reasons for your reviewer score. As far as I can tell everything you said aside from the creative portion of the book was just fine. As the book is a guide to basic prepping and not a novel or a bed time story, I am fine with it’s content and structure. Apparently so are a lot of other people.

Thanks for the support.

ZombieApocGuy