Six days before his retirement from a twenty year career in the U.S. Army, Joseph Bowman receives a call at midnight instructing him to report to his troop and draw weapons. In the chaos that ensues, Joseph is forced to choose between running suicide missions at Fort Carson or trying to get home to his family in Tennessee. 

Abby Bowman is painting the laundry room in her new home when she hears the news about a mysterious attack in Nashville. Wasting no time, she seeks shelter at her father-in-law’s house where her two young sons are staying the night. Not knowing if her husband is dead or alive, Abby does her best to protect her children from the madness that is sweeping the nation. 

Published by:  ADS, Inc

Author's Site:  None

Purchase Link:  No Matter How Far

Devourer's Assessment:  

I was not impressed.  Zombie apocalypse aside, it completely lacks plausibility, especially with the military aspect of this book.  I would suggest that the author go do some research.  Zero stars.  I spent .99 cents on this book and it was .99 cents too much.  Don't waste your money.

Zero stars.

Synopsis (from Amazon):

     Five friends. West L.A. The power goes out, and everything with it. And it's not coming back. They are normal people, not survivalists, caught in the worst place they could be, surrounded by looter gangs and millions who will soon be desperate and dying. Young, fit, but ill-prepared, their choices are few and stark.

    Jeremy’s Run, L.A. Dark, is the first installment of a serial story that chronicles an epic struggle of the human spirit to survive, to prevail over the odds, to retain one’s humanity, and to keep alive the hope for a new and better future.

My Assessment:  

I was incredibly disappointed.  It was a very slow start, but it did get good and then it was done.  No resolution.  I'm sorry, even a serial must have an element of resolution in each episode and this had none.  

I don't mind serials, but what this read like was a sample of a story, not an episode.  The alarming trend I have seen among indie authors is to pull shit like this, and pardon my language, but it is shit.  If an author can't provide a good story (complete with plot and resolution), I am not going to throw more money away, and that is what happened with the $1.50 this... you know, I don't even know what to call this... this wasn't even a serial episode... so I'll stick with 'shit'.  I wasted money on this shit, don't follow my example.

Synopsis from Amazon:

How well do you know the kid down the road?

Children can be cruel to each other. In a perfect world that would not turn criminal. In this story you will see how sadistic one child can be. You will see a kid go to distances only comparable to the worst humans mankind has ever seen.

My Assessment:

I am beyond furious.  I paid for this piece of utter crap, and 'crap', is exactly what this is. This is rife with typos and dire grammatical sins.  Add to that a weak plot, poor character development (and that is being generous, I should say LACK of character development), shoddy story that is TOLD rather than SHOWN, and frequent POV hopping (combined with the poor grammar and punctuation, leaving me often confused).

Mr. Reeves should have employed an editor because as it stands, after paying for this, I surely would NOT purchase any of his other stories.