Enforcing Home: The Survivalist Series, Book 6

One of my faves when it began!Highly recommend the first few. Then something happened. It was like the author developed a "he-man" complex & started looking down on women & the constant 3 stooges crap is just getting so old.What happened 2 intelligent conversation? To women taking roles more than hanging out cooking & as an occasional piece of a__ that he seems surprised 2 actually get each time. And no other couples really have any story lines or intelligent or romantic conversation either. The women could do so much more and provide so much more support and also ideas. They can also defend the place more. Seems like his & Danny's wives r just floating n the background somewhere. They never go 2 town or anywhere! They never visit the neighbors! Nothing! They r made 2 look boring and lazy & Mel seems to lay around on the couch and smarts off as her role or is cooking.Love the style of writing for the most part just wish the women had more of an active role n the book. They r never featured alone hanging out or doing much and r made to look like they just hang out at home and cook three meals a day.I'm thinking maybe the author doesn't know how to write a woman or maybe he is a little macho and thinks of his wife as his "old lady" & other women as "chicks".There isn't much interesting interaction between the men and their women either that I c, just the "Same old, same old".I thought when the younger women started training that might change but they all seemed completely untrained & ignorant about the marketplace bomb, even though I'm pretty sure there was a warning they may try to do that. Also if someone puts a bag down and runs off, most everyone knows not to approach it & 2 evacuate and contact someone who knows what they r do I got check it out. So it just made no sense to me how that scene went down like these young ladies r naive & untrained & haven't been through all the stuff they have n the series which should have toughened them all up by now & certainly made them suspicious.And some of the men jokes and hassling one another is getting asinine & boring & just too much.Not necessary & sometimes just downright rude & disgusting.So is the torture to get people to talk. Just out of hand and disgusting & more like what the ignorant u educated punks would do, not good upright men who know right from wrong and know better than taking it as far as it has been going.I don't remember him starting out this way.He either changed or is someone else writing it?But it's starting to really make the books boring as heck to me.Get back to the way u used to write. Make the good men upright, decent and intelligent as well as the women. Develop the characters. Show interaction besides mucking around stupidly or torturing someone or other just plain disgusting behavior.Develop some additional storylines to the main plot.Give the women more time and power and strength.Show some relationships n action n a healthy respectful dignified manner. And humor can b intelligent not "3 stoogie" every time.Ok I don't usually review but I guess I did today.

I'm not here to recap the book, you can find that elsewhere. I'm here to tell you why you should invest your spare time reading this series. If you've read my review of book one you can skip ahead because I don't really have anything new to say, just want the author to have some honest reviews in return for his hard work putting pen to paper.I read a lot of post-apocalypse fiction. Most writers suck at it. Their scenarios are rather far fetched, their characters are cookie cutter preppers I could never relate to if we were face to face, and the decisions their characters make are so stupid as to put them in deeper jeopardy making their professed prepper status highly questionable and making me hope Darwin got it right so I'll never have to deal with them.A.A.'s characters are well developed, thinking people, even the bad guys. They behave in ways that are true to their back story. Yes, they make mistakes and sometimes those mistakes have unpleasant consequences.As of today, there are maybe 10 or more books in the series. They enter my library as soon as they are released and that's unusual for me because my experience is that when an author pens a series beyond a certain number of books, they seem to reach a point where they're either phoning it in to continue milking the cash cow, or they get so tired of the characters and storyline that they begin to hate what they perceive as a rut. Neither pitfall traps this series.The story arc is such that the plot could run on for another 10 books or more provided the author continues to keep events believable. The characters are not one-note survivalists. They continue to mature and evolve as events unfold.The author isn't afraid to kill off a key character or two and new characters are fleshed out just as well as the ones that survive through everything.In spite of the seriousness of the subject, the author isn't afraid of some comic relief and there are genuine belly laughs spread throughout the series.So far, I've only been mildly disappointed with one book in the series and I believe that's because Weatherman bowed to fan pressure and turned a book out before he should have. If you pick up this series, you'll know which one I'm referring to and I'm sure he does too. When a writer is as social media connected to their fan base as he is, and that base is screaming for the next book, that's hard to ignore but easy to forgive.I hope one day to write this well and have my fans clamoring for the next book.

Great book and great series. I'm reading it for the second time now it was so good. This really needs to be made into a series or movie.

Out of all of the books in the Survivalist Series, this one may be the most intense. And the cliffhanger ending is as agonizing as they come. But once again, author A. American has outdone himself in what - for me, at least - has become the most endearing series of this genre. With a cast of characters you can't help but know and love, and a situation all too plausible, The Survivalist series encapsulates all the properties of a post apocalyptic America - good and bad - and lays them out for the everyday reader to understand and empathize with. You don't need to be s prepper, special forces veteran, or possess any further knowledge than the average American to understand what transpires in the day to day world of Morgan Carter, his family, friends and hangers on. And it is this quality, I believe, that makes the series so endearing. In Book 6 we find Morgan at odds with a new group, just arrived in the area - and unsettling news re the disposition of the nation as a whole, and DHS in particular. And if that weren't bad enough, there's an enormous forest fire bearing down on them all - and no modern equipment to fight it with. Morgan, Danny, Thad, Sarge, and a new & talented ally have all they can handle - and a few pleasantries as well - on the roller coaster ride that has become their lives. With more than one surprise along the way, and a cliffhanger ending, this one is a must read. So if ever you've thought about giving up on this series. Now is not the time. Things are just now about to get real interesting - on a host of fronts.

I love theses books, the characters keep growing and all the survival tips are awesome.

Another excellent instalment in the ongoing story of Morgan, Sarge and the rest of the group.Will each new book it only gets better and better, I'm already looking forward to book number 7

not too preachy and highly entertaining

Very good book! I hope next book is out soon!

I’ve read all 11 of the books in this series. They are interesting and fun to read; however, the editing in this last book is appalling. As a former English teacher, I can always work out the meaning, but, seriously, how hard is it to get someone to proofread before you sell it. It’s irritating and takes away from the pleasure of reading.