This book started out good, but at about the halfway point, it started to drag. While I liked some of the ending, there was way more "Oh, I can't go on! Woe is me!" than earlier in the book. I ended up skipping about 10 minutes in the middle of one chapter near the end that was just too disgusting. Anyway, if you don't care about hearing that Mormons are awful for an entire book, then it is mostly a pleasant read. Good points: interesting descriptions of the southwest and a fantastic horse chase scene. Also, it was interesting to see cowboys who treat women with respect, as opposed to how some "manly" men treat women now. Bad points: the defense of obviously evil people solely because they have positions of power in a religious hierarchy (obviously, this is a plot device, but it was so disgusting), constant repetition, and the occasional whining at the end.