Halfway through reading this, I felt the need to inform my husband how woefully unprepared we are for the coming apocalypse.We don't own a shotgun.I don't know how to slaughter my own meat, or cook over an open fire.And I am completely ill equipped to deal with the inevitable downfall of society.Once I accepted my inadequacy and accepted that I would most likely be one of the first casualties, I could sit back and enjoy the story of Alex's battle for survival on his journey to find his parents after the cataclysmic supervolcano and ensuing ashfall.