Book Review: Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh

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What happenswhen resources become scarce and society starts to crumble? As the competitionfor resources pulls America's previous stable society apart, the "NewNormal" is a Soft Apocalypse. This is how our world ends; with a whimperinstead of a bang.
REVIEW:
Soft Apocalypseby Will McIntosh isn't a book that I normal read. There were no zombies,vampires, werewolves, or even a ghost that went bump in the night within itspages. The story is scary for reasons that monsters cannot compete with. Thehorror that lays in wait in this book is so close to reality, it's scary.
The story startsin the year 2023, and follows a single male named Jasper just over the courseof ten years, as the economy tanks, society falls apart, and the unemploymentrate jumps to over sixty percent. His journey trudged through life, love,murder, and what it takes to survive in a crumbling world.
This is just thebeginning of the story.
FROM THE BOOK:

And for the past ten years things had onlygotten worse. Blackouts, war, fifty-seven varieties of terrorists, watershortages, plagues. It reminded me of a story about frogs: if you put them inan open pot of water and turn on the burner, they just sit there and boil todeath, because they're not equipped to recognize and respond to gradual changesin water temperature. They could jump out at any time, but there never comes atime when their little brains judge it's time to jump. So they cook.
Imagine a worldwhere middle-class no longer exists. There are the rich, and the homeless, andthen there are those who are fed up. People with college degrees and no jobsfor them. It's a world full of scientists, doctors, researchers, and chemists…all shunned, and living in the streets. They have nothing left to lose andnothing to provide but their knowledge.
While the worldis at war with its self, the citizens have decided to turn the terror that istheir lives, into special kinds of terrorism to sooth themselves. Now there is abreed of eco-terrorism, bio-terrorism and even viral-terrorism spreading, asgroups of vigilante citizens blame the rich, the government, and even fellowcitizens for the world falling apart.
One group hasinvented a virus that won't cure the world that is falling apart, but to helpyou forget the hell that the world has become. Homeless tribes must decidebetween starving to death as world falls apart, or join a group of cultist intheir ignorant bliss as the world burns.

If you want to readsomething truly terrifying, find something that could very easily becomereality. 


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