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I didn't like this sequel quite as much as I liked the first book, which was more about the kids getting to know each other, understand their gifts and work as a team. This one focused more on the super special bond between Jasper and Mira, and the experience of spending their next six weeks of cadet training on the home planet of a friendly race of aliens called Tunnelers. The Tundra Trials themselves were basically just extreme geocaching, and I thought that was the least interesting part of the story. More interesting is the unrest among the Tunnelers themselves, whose local government was basically disbanded by the Earth Force; and the heroes' involvement in the war against the Youli, in which it is increasingly unclear who is attacking and who is merely defending themselves. But there will be additional opportunities to work on figuring that out - there are at least three more books in the series.
I didn't like this sequel quite as much as I liked the first book, which was more about the kids getting to know each other, understand their gifts and work as a team. This one focused more on the super special bond between Jasper and Mira, and the experience of spending their next six weeks of cadet training on the home planet of a friendly race of aliens called Tunnelers. The Tundra Trials themselves were basically just extreme geocaching, and I thought that was the least interesting part of the story. More interesting is the unrest among the Tunnelers themselves, whose local government was basically disbanded by the Earth Force; and the heroes' involvement in the war against the Youli, in which it is increasingly unclear who is attacking and who is merely defending themselves. But there will be additional opportunities to work on figuring that out - there are at least three more books in the series.
