I was really into this book at the beginning. It was a fantastic idea: adults are done for, we must leave the world in the hands of children? This sounded amazing. As I continued reading, it was amazing. Right up until the children of China met up with the children of America. That was when I got really annoyed. The author tried to portray the American children as considering gun fights and warfare as playtime, but really, I can't imagine any children finding gun fighting pleasurable after the first time seeing a child die and not come back. Most children I know are afraid of death, and I just can't find it believable that they would just be shooting each other up in the streets for fun. Also, if children were supposed to be this new hope, this new ray of light for humanity, why on earth weren't most of those weapons destroyed with the nuclear ones? And don't even get me started on that fake out. It ended in a time period where things were just getting to turn positive, without us getting to see that potential build and flourish. If I have to read through the low points of this new world, I should at least get to see the final product where things got better.