Controversial question and book review - Daimones by Massimo Marino

Book Blurb:
Dan and his family awake one day in a world where everyone is dead but no evidence points to a cause. Initial searches for survivors yield nothing and, in panic, the family turns their house into a stronghold.

Eventually, they find Laura, a survivor who manages to win their hearts...and leads Dan to temptation. Laura reveals her panicking encounter with strange entities which Dan recognizes in his childhood hallucinations.

He forces himself to find and confront them: An older power controls the fate of men. A few selected will face the ultimate quest: a painful genetic transformation and work toward the rebirth of a new human race, or oblivion and death in isolation.
My review:I was given an ebook copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Boy am I conflicted in how I feel about this one. I'm into post-apocalyptic books right now so I was really intrigued by the synopsis and when the author told me the "entities" weren't zombies (I'm a bit over zombies) I was curious to find out more.  
The book is a slow starter and I think it is far longer than it needs to be. There is a lot of repetition and  philosophizing that I just didn't enjoy. The dialogue feels stilted and unnatural. The writing throughout has a European feel and I'm not saying that is a bad thing, but it feels a little awkward to American and/or Australian readers. If you've read books by European writers that won't bother you. But here's where I really had a problem.
***SPOILER ALERT***When I got to the part where Dan is seduced by Laura I couldn't help thinking this book has been written by a middle-aged man who is vicariously living out his fantasies through his characters. Middle-aged guy gets seduced by hot young thing WITH HIS WIFE'S PRIOR APPROVAL AND HELP PLANNING THE SEDUCTION ??? Uh huh. Sure. I could see the group agreeing to having him impregnate Laura for the whole survival of the species thing, but I think there would be a whole lot more jealousy and emotional conflict regarding this whole situation - which wasn't shown here except that Mary got quiet. Turning it into polyamory was a bit much for me. Maybe European women are more open to this kind of thing. What do I know?
I did find a few conceptual similarities to my own book, which I thought was kind of cool. They aren't real similarities and I'm probably the only one who would see them, but cool nonetheless.
Now for what I did like - I actually liked the way the "entities" played into this and I liked the way the story played out and ended. I liked that it was set around the CERN Supercollider, and I enjoyed the science aspects. Again, too much philosophizing and ruminating, but an intriguing and enjoyable story and one I'm glad I read.  
So take my very conflicted review and do with it what you will. What do you think? Have I made you wantto read this? 

And bonus controversial question - it is the end of the world and as far as you know only you, your spouse and one other adult are the survivors - would you help the other adult seduce your spouse, not for the purposes of procreation but so they too would have someone to love?


Author bio - per Massimo Marino:
I’m Italian, or should I say, Sicilian. Palermo is my home town and I left it in 1986. I now have lived more years abroad than in Italy. Needless to say, I have changed in many and different way than my old friends there.

I lived in Switzerland, France, and the United States. For work, I used to travel some 500,000 air miles a year. I am a scientist as a background, having spent over 17 years in fundamental research. Most of my writing are academic stuff. I worked for many years at CERN, near Geneva—an international lab for particle physics research—then in the US at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. In 1995 I moved to the private sector, worked with Apple Inc., and then for the World Economic Forum.

Some say I have acquired a multi-faceted personality.

Author's website
http://www.facebook.com/massimo.marino.750546
Link to Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/>  page
http://www.amazon.com/Daimones-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B0083IHV5I

Link to Goodreads page
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811231-daimones