It kept me entertained enough, but it's hardly a good book, so I can't in good faith recommend it. It tries to depict a dystopian world in which... well, you probably know the premise by now. But the world is too consumed with this one single feature. For a world situated centuries after the so-called "rusties", children there sure know a lot about us. More than I know of the life of people who lived in the 19th century, that's for sure. All it all, it just doesn't pass the bar for suspension of disbelief. The world is not coherent enough, it's too dependent on our point of view, so it remains one-dimensional, and since it is lacking in any insights on our own society, the whole thing becomes an exercise in futility.

I won't be reading the next books in the series.