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This book started out with some real potential. However, I found all of the characters except the elderly couple to be annoying and somewhat stereotypical. A building in a trendy nyc neighborhood with a rich villain, a few immigrant families, a vegan couple, a useless protagonist with no practical skills, his prepper friend who decides to stay in nyc because the useless protagonist and his wife don't want to leave, a doorman named Tony (from Brooklyn, of course) who hitches his wagon to these idiots instead of simply going home, an egghead tech guru/train crash survivor who strolls in to remind us that technology is more important than common sense, and a bunch of women with little character development who make snacks, tea and bad decisions for most of the book. The protagonist was a complete clown whose stupidity was only surpassed by his wife and his friend's wife. As a woman, I was insulted by the women in this book. Are we really expected to believe that a woman with an infant and a pregnant woman with a small child would make so many poor decisions that obviously compromised their children? Really? The only strong, smart, likely-to-survive woman in the book was 90 years old. The main characters were not believable and I felt nothing for them but disgust. I live in New York and have seen more than enough to know that the morons in this book would have died. The only people who seemed capable of actually surviving were the elderly couple. The syrupy, preachy conclusion was precious. And not in a good way. I have no idea why this book has such great reviews.