If you have a scifi fan in the family, this is a great gift!

The book was alright. I felt a little let down simply because I figure if machines had enough intelligence and power to organize an offensive, they would have destroyed more people than they actually did. I felt it was going to be as realistic as possible, but it wasn't very. No mention of diseases running rampant (as they should be with bombed hospitals and dead doctors), for example, just wounds eventually attended to by reformed robots. The details of life after this sort of catastrophe were missing, in short, and I would have liked to hear about them to be more absorbed in the story itself. having said that, it still is interesting and I like how several characters eventually crossed paths. I didn't care too much for a particular part of the ending. Left me wondering.