This was tough to get through. I think I spent about 4 times longer to listen to this than another average book of this length. I think one of the main problems I had was that I couldn’t get into the head of the charaters. There was little character development, and none of the characters where very likeable (The one exception got killed half way though). The action was few and far between, and it seemed the whole book was just a vehicle for discussion pro-religous view points. I don’t have anything against religion, but there should be more nuance to a story like this. In this universe you where either religous, or you where a slave owning communist it seemed like. I wish there had been a more middle ground to the story and not so black and white. I gave the story 2 stars becuase it did promt me to do some research on my own.