Unsure why it's rated so highly here - the Amazon reviews are much more accurate. It's a book with a lot of potential, but really needs strong editing. It has a lot of repetitive quotes, typos, excessive use of (boring) first names, and a fair amount of other 'beginner mistakes'. The story line has some potential, but I'm not sure I'll bother with the next one.... Too hard of a slog reading about "Ethan, David, Charles, Johnathan, Katrina, William, Tom"