The earth is dead..wiped out by 'the shroud' which covered the earth and blotted out the sun. Luckily 'Larry' - think Elon Musk - knew what was coming and created a bunker for him and his fiancee's family to live in and survive.This isn't the fastest, most rip roaring book - it goes along at a steady pace, with the family going from one disaster to another to stay alive. However, I really got into this book by about halfway through.My thanks to Netgalley for this copy in return for an honest review.

DNF. While the premise of the book is interesting the story has been done many times before with dramatic survival after a world ending catastrophe. The writing was stilted and the dialogue was not what would be heard in everyday conversation. I could not continue while being constantly irritated by the writing style.

The premise of the story was great and, while not traditional sci-fi since it is near future, it was pretty interesting. The characters were a bit too perfect for me and some of the dialogue seem too "everyday" and not literary enough. Also there were a couple of errors about America in the text, but I suppose that is merely cosmic payback for all the times us American writers have flubbed details about exotic locales around the globe. In addition, unless the book is setting up a sequel, I thought the ending was a bit abrupt.

That having been said, I enjoyed the book.