This was a little difficult to get into at first due to the almost complete lack of knowledge of the world the characters inhabited. It quickly improved, but just as I had invested emotion in the characters, it ended - and I say ended rather than concluded, because there was no conclusion at all. It may very well be that this is part of a series of books but even so I'd rather that I had been left with a few more answers and a few less questions at the end of The Line.