We are unprepared - Meg Little Reilley

This was a harder one. Dense, difficult to maneuver, and fraught with mirrors for our society, We Are Unprepared forces the reader to take a deep look at the unsustainable way we live, and the fragility of human relationships when faced with forces greater than humanity.
Like I said, this book is dense and took a lot longer to read than 400 pages normally would. There is a lot of emoption, and it is entirely from the perspective of Ash, in the face of an incoming storm that will forever change the face of the planet and the face of his relationship with his wife Pia. 
The book is hard to get through, because it makes you examine your own life and the unsustainable way we are living as a species. It takes place in a small Vermont town called Isole which brings the idea of a world-changing Superstorm home. It is what would happen when people need to come together, but lines are drawn because humans love to fight and tend to be disagreeable at their very core. By not setting it in a bigger setting, like the White House or even a major city it really shows the basic response that would be a reality in this type of situation on a day to day basis and from small town to small town. 
The dissolution of Ash and Pia's marriage shows this divide even more clearly. Pia goes Prepper and becomes overly concerned with their individual survival, whereas Ash turns toward the community and works to ensure the survival of their society and infrastructure in town.
I'm inclined to give it 3.5/5 just because it was so brutally dense. I read it in eBook format and was betting the paper copy was close to 700 pages, but in reality it is 352 pages. 
Overall a pretty good read if you like to delve into human consciousness and like apocalypse stories.