I wanted to like this book. I did. It's got the elements I want in a post-apocalyptic survival book, and some of those actual survival bits were the ones I really did like about Ashes, Ashes, from the protagonist having a looted survival manual to survivors banding together, growing their own food a...
There are any number of cracking ways to open a novel, but I am going to argue that dismembering a turtle is not one of them.