I am on the third book in this series and am very much enjoying them! Would recommend them to anyone. Some of the writing style uses can get frustrating, bit over all are fun stories told by a very good story teller. Ringo gives you snap shots when moving the story along and can use imagination to fill in the blanks. On most there is a deep dive having nice interaction among the characters. To me they are gobble books. Ones that are hard to put down and read fast. The main story is really the following of a family from the start of a world crisis, and following them through it. The one character I feel he does injustice to is the wife. She kind of drops off after the first book. He adds a ton of other characters, not all fully given life, but just drops the wife from the story altogether. Which is a shame for she is quite a interesting one and so much more could have been done with her. Read and enjoy!