I wanted so, so badly to love this, after loving The Monstrumologist series and really digging the apocalypse in general. But this... I liked it. It was a well-paced action-adventure, lots of great character development, but I had too many moments of "he's about to become Ender!... so, okay, yeah, here comes Bean" and other such derivations along the way. I wanted this to be fresh and original and instead there was a whole section I felt like I'd read in another book. 
 I'm most likely going to read more of this series because I really did enjoy it, but it wasn't as HOLY CROW AMAZEBALLS as I wanted it to be. 
 Bonus points to it, though, for acknowledging the importance of the teen girl's stash of tampons post-apocalypse.