Review: Not Sure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2014
I would give this 3 1/2 stars if I could.  I did purchase the second book and want to see where this story goes.  The epilog should not have been included in the first book.  It makes an abrupt ending which only serves as a cliff hanger.  If you intend on going further with this series I recommend skipping it all together as it is the first chapter in the second book.  The second book lacks a table of contents and chapter breaks so the only way to get to the second chapter was page forwarding thru the first.  This is a really short book, which I knew from the start.  I wish it had been released as a preview then incorporated into the second book.  I was able to get it for free.  It seems too short and too incomplete to purchase on its own.Now for why I am not sure I like this book or not.  There wasn't enough world building going on to get a good grasp on it.  Each chapter is about a different character.  Although we see some characters more than once, this book would be barely long enough to develop one character let alone four of them.  It made understanding the world more difficult.The world is goofy at times.  Even if this is some sort of end of the world starting over book, I find it difficult to believe after a thousand years people don't understand how a child is made.  Seriously, they think by sleeping with a woman once it guarantees an heir?  One would think if the entire society is dependent upon the heir of the number, they would wait until an heir is actually in existence prior to sending the number on a potentially life threatening mission.  I also thought it was strange that all the descendants seem to be male.  The other really big world problem for me was the clay teeth.  From what I could understand it seems like one character has "wet clay" teeth.  I sure hope I miss understood this and they were at least partially fired.  How silly!  How would one keep wet clay in his mouth for more than five minutes?I liked the concept.  I hope the second book fleshes the world and story out some more.  It was interesting and worth reading so far, but I'm still not sure if I am really into this story.  Just too short and too choppy.  I see several stories are released at this point.  Once the series is complete I hope it is released as a collection like Wool was.