I read this book last summer and loved it, mostly because it got me thinking, especially since I was hit pretty hard by Hurricane Sandy. My house was fine, we were fine, but there was no power anywhere for a week. We were fortunate enough to have a generator, but I know a lot of people who weren't.

The hardest part of living through that is the lack of information. The cell phone networks were pretty much still running, but all local news was shut down because there was no way for any one to get around because we lost so many trees. There was one grocery store open and one gas station. My one friend lost a massive tree and so my dad ended up helping him chop it up and to keep ourselves entertained, we had a bonfire every night.

We had the generator, which allowed us to take showers and flush toilets like normal and we invited our friends to come over and take showers and charge their cell phones.

Either way I loved this book and I think I'd recommend Patriots by James Wesley Rawles and Dies the Fire by SM Stirling. Rawles's book was apparently published and then rereleased recently. He also has a ton of recommendations at the end of the book. SM Stirling's goes fantasy as the book series goes on, but the first book no one knows what's happening.