Very good start to a good series. Great characters and they are developed well. The series is like Madd Max combined with Game of Throwns. It shows you how fragile societies and knowledge is. Losing and rediscovering knowledge is something that probably has happened many times in human history. A generation that grows up without the passed down knowledge of human history has to go back to grown zero, and it starts with our most primal needs and desires. Of all the books like this that Keven Pierce has done, this is by far the best. A lot of the books he has done are flooded with religious or political undertones. This is just a great human story.