tl;dr: Eight hours of my life, gone forever.

If you're looking for an unremarkable nuclear apocalypse/doomsday adventure series which is mild-to-moderately insulting to one's intelligence, a reader can do better than Akart's "Nuclear Winter First Strike," unfortunately the first in a series. It seems Akart writes what he knows. The target audience may be over 50 cis/het white males, far from the book's only shortcoming.

• Does the hero/protagonist get the girl?
• Can the families quickly approximate a prepper approach as nukes begin dropping?
• Can a reader care about any of this?

There's a sprinkling of transphobia and normalizing right-wing authoritarian/propaganda of Fox "News" & one of their white supremacist opinion hosts. This may be fine with over a third or more of right-leaning adults in North America, or literate racists as a whole, and repugnant for others.

If you can simultaneously hold your nose while reading, suppress any instinct to vomit, while also ignoring the technical shortcomings, (with a scat-tering of grammatical & spelling failures), and the tragic material which endeavors to approach a middle school reading level, yet ultimately falls short of a YA target audience, then grab the gallon-size Pepto Bismol & read away.

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