The interview format was interesting and unique. Overall I enjoyed it, although all the jargon made it hard for me to really understand what was happening at times and I didn’t love the way women were  talked about. It’s what you’d expect from an action novel written by a man in the early 2000s - not outright sexism, but not feminist by any means. 

I want to appreciate this book for what it is (a cool way to approach a zombie apocalypse story) rather than judge it for what it’s not (equal in its treatment of men and women). However, in reflecting on this book, I think it’s worth noticing that the women POVs were: an ignorant wife, a woman who was institutionalized, a woman who was in the military but hated that she “acted like a girl,” a birther, and a woman who solely talked about her dad’s choice to bring them north when she was a kid. The other 20+ POVs were men. He made a statement at the beginning saying the interviewees’ viewpoints were not his own & he’s preserving journalistic integrity by not editing their words or putting his own opinion…. But the author seemed to like writing from the POV of misogynistic assholes a lot…. 

Also, I wish there had been more of a narrative thread connecting the stories, maybe fewer narrators that would repeat instead of so many disconnected ones. 

I think it was a cool idea, and the author clearly did a lot of research to make each interview sound authentic. Still, I personally would love to read it written by someone else with a more modern, inclusive perspective; with more narrative and less jargon. I’d keep some of the interviews but get rid of or change a lot of them.