This book. Wow! It did not capture me from the start, but I loved the slow build to the action. And let me tell you, the action was great! Great character development and the story moves very easily from now to then. The only problem I had was with the narration. The narrator was great with telling the story, but not so great with character voices. Some of them made me physically wince, but that is a very small nuisance and I was able to get past that. I enjoyed this very much. Not too much gore and it was definitely not gore just for the sake of it. It moved the story along. This was my first book by this author, and I will be reading more.