Founders

Good book

Great book in a great series. I’ve read it several times, and I pick up on new details each time. Please write more Mr Rawles.

A very good read. I wish more authors would write this kind of novel, then more preppers would be able to learn techniques that apply to them. I started prepping about 18 months ago. I believe our government is about to collapse from financial instability. Every American should be prepping in someway.

Was good to tie all 3 books togather, answered some of the blanks about Andy and Lar's overall it finished out the series! Ty JWR!

Very disappointed. A third of the book was pasted from the first two. A third was in depth descriptions of religions, quotes from scripture and quotes from others. Only about a third was new content.

Rawles essentially copied/pasted large sections of the first 2 books, and then added some filler. There were a few new stories that weren't in the prior books, but overall I felt like I paid for the first 2 books again. Rather dissapointing.

I feel like I am a part of the lives of these characters now. The brilliance of this author is his ability to take the reader away and put him in the story. While the first novels were technical (took forever to read while a took copious notes), this installment puts all of our newfound knowledge into practice. Read for entertainment, but also insight into life when the SHTF. A side note, Muddy Pond is over the river and through the woods from our home. This neck of the woods is a hidden paradise and a prepper's dream!

I really felt the first book in this contemporaneous series (Patriots) was, at times, heavy on technical details and instruction for the reader, using the character and story to help show how or why a technique or list of equipment is useful. The second book (Survivors) followed this pattern a bit loosely, building a larger and more elaborate story which was equally interesting as the first book, and almost as informative. This time, in Founders, Rawles seems to shift much further from using a story to give instruction or rationale, and is now in full story telling mode. The only problem is the story is not really new. This book simply fills in details of many of the story lines and details initially presented in Patriots and Survivors. Sure, there are new characters scattered around, but this is really just a convenient way to wrap up the storyline. I appreciate the effort, but was hoping for more.

This book was as good if not better than the first two. James Wesley Rawles is a master storyteller and the book serves as a warning about the future of these United States.