Dies the Fire

Holy cow. That took forever to finish. Sounded liked a great premise to start with - a world plunged into mass chaos due to some big unexplained event that resulted no electricity and guns being useless (I still don't get how a gun won't fire but they can start actual fires)- but it took a wrong turn and got very, very lost along the way. I was so bored in the middle section of the book that got to the point where I didn't much care who fought who or who won (though since this is a series that part is kind of obvious) as long as the number of pages I had left was less than the number of pages I had already read. I just didn't care about any of the characters anymore. Can't see myself ever picking up book 2.