In my opinion, the first book was the strongest of the trilogy. It dealt a lot with the issues of what we’re doing to the world today, and played around with what the future of our world could be and examining the society that results from our society’s crash and burn. Reactions against racism, how people are controlled to keep them from becoming greeding and trashing the environment even worse than we have, and plays with some pretty powerful “what if”s.

Third book, however, doesn’t quite drop the ball, but it’s not as strong as the first two, very little is added to the characters and it’s more flash with less substance. I liked following the story to it’s end, and he ties up the end of the book well with more strength coming out of Tally at the end. But the book seems to be a cascade of accidents piling up on each other and disasters beyond the character’s control.