This book is well written and keeps the reader turning the pages eager to learn more about each character. I love the work that the author has put into making the book accurately reflect the geography and the history of the Mayan and Aztec people. One section of the book gets a bit long with details of personal history for the central character but it doesn't make the reader want to quit so much as hurry through that the section. At times it seems nothing will ever go right for the hero's of the book but it does come to a beautiful resolution filled with hope and promise.