Negative Positive
Title: Post WWII Era values?
Review: Yes, this story gives good and bad. For the good you have a conservative older man who builds a bomb shelter to attempt to save his family from being destroyed in a nuclear war with Russia. The concept is not new although he was writing about it before it became a popular storyline. The bad news is that he begins to discuss 'deviant' sexual behavior, primarily when his adult daughter admits to the main character 'Hugh' that he was welcome to have her sexually. Now he of course declines but the very discussion was repulsive, they were of the belief that the small band of survivors were the only people to survive but still! If you and your daughter were the last 2 people on earth I would hope her virtue would be safe. What kind of mind thinks of such awful things? As a story FREEHOLD was quite good and I recommend it. Just beware that it has some odd mores exhibited within. I do recommend this novel but some of his later works tend to be sexually twisted.
Is the review positive or negative? 