I enjoyed this start of the series. Brann was a great character, and I lost count of the times where his blunt but easy-going exchanges with people made me giggle, especially between him and Emery's daughters, Olivia and April. He was exactly what Emery and the girls needed to get them over the hump of grief that had clouded all of them since the death of Emery's wife.

His interactions with the citizens of Ursa were the same, and I can understand why people fell in love with him and how he just stepped in to do what was right.