This book was really good, I really liked the whole plot. I am not the type of person who likes reading books out of order, and this one doesn't sound like the first one in the series (I can't tell), but it does a really good job of explaining what happened previously so I didn't feel left out at all. The characters were very descriptive and they each had a unique voice, which is a hard thing to put in a book. It made it easy to tell who was talking and when. However, there were many things I did not like about this book. Had this been made into a movie, it would be rated R for extreme sexual content, foul language, and very descriptive bloody battle scenes--there were some parts where I had to put the book down, or skip a few pages because I couldn't handle the stuff. I don't think I would recommend this to my friends only because they are against this kind of stuff. This book is intended for a mature audience.