Well, this did not improve really from the first book. Gwen is still exasperatingly unlikeable and none of the other characters sparkle either. It seems like everyone else out there is a crazed prepper with delusions of grandeur. It is also astonishing how much romance is on the minds of those in Gwen's group. I get at some point interest like that would come up, but seems like when you are on the move to find a place a safety, bad people out there and contending with the sinister phenomena, romance would be a low priority. I just can't really understand people with so little consideration for surviving. I'm very much on the fence about continuing. I'm mildly interested in what or who caused the Red Sky and Blue Cloud, but not wanting this childishness of who is hooking up with whom.