Book Review: "Sick" by Brett Battles

For fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, and Michael Crichton comes a new, heart-pounding thriller by Brett Battles... Daniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. She’s had them before. Yet he can’t help but worry when she cries out again as he pads down the hallway. Stepping through her doorway, he expects to find her sitting up in bed, frightened by a nightmare. But the nightmare is his. It’s real. And it's just beginning... Something is burning Ash's daughter alive. Something horrible that is spreading beyond the walls of their home, and taking no prisoners. Thirty seconds later, Ash will discover his daughter isn’t the only one in his family infected, and as his world spins, coming apart at the seams, a team of armed men in biohazard suits bursts into his house. But these aren’t the good guys. They haven’t come to save Ash’s family. They’ve come to separate them, to finish what they started. The problem is Ash refuses to disappear. He wants only one thing: to find those responsible. Because humanity is on the brink of execution. And man is pulling the trigger. - from Amazon.com, minus extra review wordings

This is yet another story (series) leading to a possible apocalyptic ending of Life as we know it. This one, brought on via a flu-like virus, that kills everyone without the vaccine (which is not perfected yet) or a natural immunity to it (like our main character, his kids, and I am starting to wonder if not a few others as well). It ended as a a possible stand-alone novel, but there is a second book out in the series. Plenty of action that keeps the story going, but not a lot of character in-depth build-up. There were a few times that a character is in what I would think would be a crucial/critical decision moment, and make the dangerous/obvious decision without any sort of thought. Also were a few things (like practicing your aim on a gun range) that at least one character seemed to become near perfect in only a matter of few hours practice - though I admit, he was a former military, but still seemed a bit far fetched. Either way, it didn't detract from the story much. Overall a decent read if you are into the end of the world type stuff.