After reading The Sound of Gravel I was equal parts fascinated and horrified by the Cult - I mean, Church of the Firstborn. This was a fascinating look at the origins of that group and Ervil's spin-off cult, the Lambs of God. It's terrifying how much power this man wielded and how much evil he wrought. My biggest complaint is that the authors jump from event to event in order to make them more dramatic, but I had a really hard time figuring out the timeline, because one chapter would end in 1975 and the next chapter would start in 1970. It would have been nice to have a timeline and list of characters, at the very least. When your subject has somewhere between 12 and 14 wives, it's really hard to remember who everyone is.