I loved it. Great story - nothing overwhelmingly new, but an artful combination of themes and techniques used separately in countless other stories. I found myself deeply committed to some of the characters, although when I try to look at the book objectively, I'm not sure that character development is Cronin's strongest skill. So I'm not quite sure what I found so compelling.

This book reminded me constantly of Stirling's Change series - the obvious parallel is that they're both post-apocalyptic fiction, but the similarities seem to stop there, so again - not quite sure what's behind the strength of my reaction.

In short, I found it totally enthralling - I've never plowed through that many pages in that few days. Can't wait for the remaining books and the movies!!