I spent the first three chapters of this book trying to remember where Sophos, the main character was from, since I read book one (where he is from, it turns out) several years ago. The curse of books is that the best way to read this series is over a summer, spent in your grandmother's basement, but the only way to write them is one at a time, several years at a time.

The author has abandoned the outsider POV that had served her so well in previous books, wisely, I think, as it was becoming increasingly difficult to find innocents who weren't prepared for Gen. In this book, Sophos is the POV character, and he is pretty well prepared for Gen. Dramatic tension is instead created by telling the story slightly out of order.

If you liked the previous, you will like this one.