I really enjoyed Martinez's characters in this book they were all vastly different and very imaginative. Martinez's style of writing is so creative and different from anything else out there all of his books are a " nice break". In this book a deformed human (Ned) turned immortal becomes commander for a group of misfits and social outcasts. Ned has to work to gain the trust of all the males in the group but for. Some reason the two main females spend the majority of the book fighting for his attention focusing on what the ladies think are their attractive qualities which becomes quite comical.