SPOILERS FOLKS SPOILERS FOLKS SPOILERS FOLKS SPOILERS FOLKS OK, started this on the way to the office this morning and found several things to grumble about in the first thirty or so pages.
It took you that long? Pollotta must be slipping.

For the first point: Not a big deal, IMO - you know the writers don't get to read the previous book...
For the second: I wish there were a "head-shake" emoticon...
For the third: Looks like the cover artist and the author aren't communicating. Or the artist read Pollotta's previous book set in Utah, where it was a lush jungle, and went with that... and then Pollotta decided to make it into a desert. Which would be fine (most of Utah IS desert, after all)... except that he's ignoring the fact that the Great Salt Lake, according to Pilgrimage to Hell, covers 15,000 square miles.

I can't believe you put yourself through this torture. You must be a masochist.