Ehh.....I mean the author did a great job controlling the mood and the tone of this book. It was pretty confusing though, and normally I'd love to try and untangle everything that went on, but I just found so much of this book to be uninteresting and dull and I couldn't get myself to care. There's a whole separate thread about the missions in California and the atrocities there and I couldn't work out how to bring that into the storyline. I don't know, maybe others will read this and be intrigued and passionate enough to figure out what's happening here, but I wasn't.