Description from Amazon:
When a levee collapses in Hinowah, a small
town in Northern California, Colter Shaw is brought on by his sister, Dorion, a
disaster response specialist, to help locate a family swept away by the raging
water, with mere hours to survive.
But after a surprise attack along the river obstructs Colter's urgent search,
the siblings are forced to consider a new reality: Is the levee at risk of
failing from natural causes, or is someone sabotaging it? Colter and Dorion
must race against a ticking clock to uncover the truth and save the citizens
before the village washes out completely, destroying everything and everyone in
its path.
Okay, I admit that the Colter Shaw character
has grown on me. I think it’s because the survivalist rules his dad imparted
are not used as often in the later books – it felt like the first book was full
of them.
But in saying that, this felt a little all
too over the place. Part of the story here and part of the story there. In fact,
it seems that there were about five subplots to the main one and yet Shaw
manages to solve them all! There was a lot of technical stuff about the
flooding and it did feel like wading through the flood reading parts of it.
Getting to know Dorion more helped the
story along, but Mary’s response to the new family member seemed too easy. I
guess each to their own.
The author in the car at the front before
the collapse has an interesting storyline, but adding in so much of her book
took me out of the actual book, so going from action and shooting and chasing
people on bikes to chapters from a fantasy book was odd.
All in all, the usual twists and turns and misdirection
but this is becoming predictable too. And as for the character who is the mayor
and temporary police chief who has to be told not to fiddle with the loaded
weapon in his holster? Um, nope.
The ending sets it up for a new story. But
this was an average one for me...
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