Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The novel is well written but it is based on a flawed premise. A large meteor strike hits the Washington DC and Chesapeake Bay area and ejects enough water vapor into the atmosphere to cause a runaway greenhouse effect and eventually ‘boil the oceans’. While water vapor is a greenhouse gas per se, it is not capable of forcing a runaway effect as described because its presence in the atmosphere is self limiting via precipitation. The author recognizes that there would be initially be a global winter effect, dropping the global temperature by over 2 degrees prior to the supposed runaway effect and ignores the consequence that the water vapor ejected into the atmosphere would precipitate as snow and rain. Ordinarily, I can suspend disbelief when reading sci-fi but this is such a whopper that I could not recommend the book.