I felt like I'd missed a book, or at least a few hundred pages, when I started reading this, to the point I had to google to make sure it wasn't book two. It took me quite a long time to get my head around the different social structures and wording, and didn't really start to become entranced until more than half way through. Glad I stuck with it, an interesting and very different story of a dystopian post-apocalyptic future and I'll give the next book a shot as well.