Okay, so I don't exactly fit the target audience. That doesn't necessarily disqualify me from reading it and truth be told, I was pretty decently entertained...

But, while being fun to read, a couple of things annoyed me so much that I almost threw it out the window (which would have been mind-numbingly dumb, it being an e-book). First, it is lazy. The surroundings are described incongruously as first barren, then overgrown fields. Everybody's moved to coastal cities, leaving the interiors - yet these interiors (The Waste) still have water and electricity. Even if the military would keep infrastructure active, they certainly wouldn't have kept it up in every nook and cranny like this. Come one! It doesn't take that much work to build tension without resorting to showers and cold shaves (and trust me, there is nothing remotely erotic about the rashes from a cold shave). This leads to the second let-down: Considering that the protagonist is a virgin with a serious mother complex, he has a strangely retro-pornographic vocabulary and very quickly acts accordingly. A little bit of, ahem, restraint would have strengthened the tension even further and made the sex considerably more believable. There are a few other annoying tidbits, but they could just as well be artefacts from the two above and would probably not have mattered had it been any other book.