maggieha 's review for:

The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson

2.0

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“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”

This companion novel was basically missing amost of the things I loved about the first book. The protagonist was slightly whiny and naive to me. The tone of the story, the atmosphere were very different. Way too fast paced, with to me meaningless action that felt like a filler in-between two books. The one and only plot thread that felt meaningful and dear to me here was Dot, their robot companion with dreams, and her whole precious storyline. 2.5 stars

Spoiler

All in all, this one shouldn't have been Locke's book. It should've been Kara's. I've read the annotation for the last book and it's also Locke's, which doesn't make any sense. If this was a companion trilogy about three friends, this one should've been Kara's and the last one Locke's. It didn't necessarily needed to change her ending, just the protagonist. Locke was a stagnant character in this instance here anyway. While Kara was an enigma and if the author just worked on her character a little more, made her a bit more complex then she seemed here, being in her head would've been fascinating and much more memorable.