If you were at all turned off by book 1 and weren’t sure if you should continue the series, please do and listen to this story. The story being narrated as Gordo was much better than as Ox for me, mostly tone and pace. Also, learning about Gordo really brought full circle a lot of his actions from the prior book and gave life to Mark’s arc too, which for me was a little flat in the first book. Plus the epilogue, oh gosh how good to lead into book 3.