I've quite enjoyed this author's Jake Houser Mystery Series, and found that his new apocalyptic novel is just as much simultaneously heartwarming and engrossing. The aspect of an EMP event (whether cosmic or manmade) that is the Scariest to me is that first moment: planes falling from the sky, cars crashing, infrastructure lost. But good apocalyptic fiction focuses on how survivors function, individually and in families and larger groups (not always positive, of course). Reading how people manage to carry on is enlightening and often inspiring.