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Surviving #3
Final Dread
There's only one way to survive...Fleeing for their lives, Jim and the others make a short stop. They desperately need supplies. Little to they know the horrors they're about to face.Trapped and alone, Jim hopes that his wife and his friends have abandoned him. If they haven't, they're going to die along with him. And if they have? Then he has no hope.Final Dread is book 3 of Surviving, a post-apocalyptic survival thriller series. It deals with real people fighting for their lives every inch of the way.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 10, 2019
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August 14, 2023
Short, fast paced. Not bad, winded, so, not that great either.
This is book 3 in the series and takes place a day or two after the main characters decide to leave a permanent location for a safer unknown area south. The author's trying to get into the character's heads and what they're thinking and how maybe normal people would work in a situation like this... The problem I had with this book is it way over explains, switching from one main character to the next kind of double explaining situations. The biggest thing though is how over-explained it is... to where it gets boring to read because for all the insights that the main characters have they still do stupid things over and over again and only luck keeps them alive even as they become Mass killers in self-defense or an aggressive stance. I'd like the genre but this really was the same old tropes. There was no uniqueness about the story and unfortunately you never really cared about the characters enough so that their stupidity couldn't be overcome in the mind of the reader. One of the worst things I've read was the relationship between a husband and wife but the author never allowed us to understand why either would bother with each other only all their weaknesses and stumbling along in a relationship that just didn't have enough substance to it to make sense for everything that was happening to want to support itself. It's not a bad book but it really wasn't a good attempt and it was so short, all three books were that it really could have been put into one, but I think then it would have been just too overwhelming having to deal with stupid character thoughts.
This is book 3 in the series and takes place a day or two after the main characters decide to leave a permanent location for a safer unknown area south. The author's trying to get into the character's heads and what they're thinking and how maybe normal people would work in a situation like this... The problem I had with this book is it way over explains, switching from one main character to the next kind of double explaining situations. The biggest thing though is how over-explained it is... to where it gets boring to read because for all the insights that the main characters have they still do stupid things over and over again and only luck keeps them alive even as they become Mass killers in self-defense or an aggressive stance. I'd like the genre but this really was the same old tropes. There was no uniqueness about the story and unfortunately you never really cared about the characters enough so that their stupidity couldn't be overcome in the mind of the reader. One of the worst things I've read was the relationship between a husband and wife but the author never allowed us to understand why either would bother with each other only all their weaknesses and stumbling along in a relationship that just didn't have enough substance to it to make sense for everything that was happening to want to support itself. It's not a bad book but it really wasn't a good attempt and it was so short, all three books were that it really could have been put into one, but I think then it would have been just too overwhelming having to deal with stupid character thoughts.
August 17, 2020
I really enjoyed the entire series. At the end of book 2 the Cabin catches Fire with only Ally and her drunk and passed out Uncle Jordan inside. Ally can’t get him out and barely gets herself out. Jim has set off swimming across the lake to get all of their supplies that fake cop Andy stole. Jessica gets kidnapped by a couple of bikers. And that is just the beginning of the action that takes place in this last book. I don’t want to give away anymore. Anyone who loves Post-Apocalyptic books should read this three book series.
October 2, 2023
GREAT BOOK IN A GREAT SERIES
Rynn Westfield has written another great book in his post-apocalyptic survival thriller series SURVIVING. Book number 3; "Final Dread" was well written and holds your interest from the first page to the last. The gang continues to fight for their survival in the aftermath of an EMP event that brings out the brutality and violence around every corner, and the only way to survive is to stick together fighting for each other.
I really enjoyed this book as well as the previous 2 books in this series and I hope you do too.
Rynn Westfield has written another great book in his post-apocalyptic survival thriller series SURVIVING. Book number 3; "Final Dread" was well written and holds your interest from the first page to the last. The gang continues to fight for their survival in the aftermath of an EMP event that brings out the brutality and violence around every corner, and the only way to survive is to stick together fighting for each other.
I really enjoyed this book as well as the previous 2 books in this series and I hope you do too.
June 30, 2019
Bikers and Surviving
Would like to know how Jessica escape from the meth head. On a lighter note, the continuation for Jim and crew is getting real. They are now without a vehicle with no real bearing or clue as to what’s next.
Switching gears, if you’ve read this far. Then you are just as surprised as I am how Rob has stepped his game up (spoiler alert). Hopefully, we will see this crew to their destination. It’s been a rough haul and good reading.
Would like to know how Jessica escape from the meth head. On a lighter note, the continuation for Jim and crew is getting real. They are now without a vehicle with no real bearing or clue as to what’s next.
Switching gears, if you’ve read this far. Then you are just as surprised as I am how Rob has stepped his game up (spoiler alert). Hopefully, we will see this crew to their destination. It’s been a rough haul and good reading.
December 5, 2019
A good series. It takes you from "normal" life to the new life in reasonably steps.
These people are sort of losers in the old world, but don't really know it. As they descend into the new world, they find new strengths they never knew they had. For some of them, they are vastly improved, but all are changed by the experience (mostly for the better, even if they don't know it). All long for the "peace" they once knew, but realize it was all an illusion.
These people are sort of losers in the old world, but don't really know it. As they descend into the new world, they find new strengths they never knew they had. For some of them, they are vastly improved, but all are changed by the experience (mostly for the better, even if they don't know it). All long for the "peace" they once knew, but realize it was all an illusion.
April 26, 2020
Ugh
A moralizing wordy series of calamities. Still bugging me that the liberal arts professors were the swingers...the swingers I’m aware of are from less educated groups. I love how only the uneducated man-of-the-people type are the survivors. It seems short-sighted to disregard all the highly-educated individuals who would be really useful post-apocalypse. Very smart people are useful. Survivors. This author has a narrow view-point.
A moralizing wordy series of calamities. Still bugging me that the liberal arts professors were the swingers...the swingers I’m aware of are from less educated groups. I love how only the uneducated man-of-the-people type are the survivors. It seems short-sighted to disregard all the highly-educated individuals who would be really useful post-apocalypse. Very smart people are useful. Survivors. This author has a narrow view-point.
May 24, 2019
I tried to like it....
I’ve followed the series, but I’m losing something. This on threw me. It was really hard to finish. I can’t say the story line is improbable because who says what someone is capable of. It’s was just so out there and predictable at the same time.
I’ve followed the series, but I’m losing something. This on threw me. It was really hard to finish. I can’t say the story line is improbable because who says what someone is capable of. It’s was just so out there and predictable at the same time.
June 4, 2019
Good story. What's Next?
Ryan Westfield is one of my favorite EMP survival writers. While some events were pretty far fetched I lived how he is able to develop the mindset of the characters. Even the lesser ones.
Ryan Westfield is one of my favorite EMP survival writers. While some events were pretty far fetched I lived how he is able to develop the mindset of the characters. Even the lesser ones.
January 10, 2021
EMP
After days, weeks, months, lack of sleep, food, water, the situation finally becoming realistic in everyone’s minds. The future holds Fighting for survival as the mainstay. Unless they can find somewhere well out of the way with a river or a stream to help them survive
After days, weeks, months, lack of sleep, food, water, the situation finally becoming realistic in everyone’s minds. The future holds Fighting for survival as the mainstay. Unless they can find somewhere well out of the way with a river or a stream to help them survive
June 16, 2019
Final Dread review
Final Dread is the third fast paced post apocalyptic E. M. P. survival book in the Surviving series written by author Ryan Westfield.
Final Dread is the third fast paced post apocalyptic E. M. P. survival book in the Surviving series written by author Ryan Westfield.
January 25, 2020
Good
Enjoying this series. It's entertaining and informative. The characters are realistic and win ones interest. Thank you for the adventure Ryan Westfield?
Enjoying this series. It's entertaining and informative. The characters are realistic and win ones interest. Thank you for the adventure Ryan Westfield?
March 2, 2020
An excellent third book in this exciting end of the world series! I really enjoyed this! I will look for more by this writer!
March 23, 2020
I love this series. Ryan Westfield is a master writer. A must read!
November 18, 2022
GOOD BOOK
June 9, 2019
The human spirit is so strong and it will do anything it can to survive. The author chose a group of survivors and we followed them from the begining, feeling their first terror and disbelief and finally acceptance of the new reality. With them we saw the worst of mankind and the best. We saw them live and die. In the end they became the real survivors the strongest and best of those who were left. A society rising from the ashes with no idea what the future might hold for them. Their one belief was to just keep on surviving. In the end that is all any of us can do!
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