This is the 1st book in a series and is a bit slow to start. The main characters are teenage kids with all the problems, emotional upheavals, and petty likes and dislikes that most teens go through. You get an assortment of various adults with their own agenda trying to run and control things. It is a fictional account of how power and Greed seem to destroy all that is good. Narrator does a Great job with the various characters voices (love the scottish sounding voices) and the entire storyline!!