Very nice beginning to a series, though still a bit rough in places. There is plenty of room to grow with characters like Nunn has created, and much physical beauty in the landscape. One can just see the heat and smell the air. The cariacatures created to people the Security Forces are much too clownish to give a deep sense of evil, but perhaps that is the tone Nunn wished to establish. After all, real evil is off-putting in the extreme. It may be good enough to sketch it without giving it a real face, if the rest of the work can carry it. But there were weaknesses throughout, I thought, that perhaps a little time and distance would have made apparent to the author. Anyway, I'll look for book two, in hopes that practice makes perfect.