Artificial Condition

Wells has depth. This was not as shockingly good as the first – it felt a little contrived and was way over the top in the unlikely-coincidence department – but it was still damn good, and I've started right up on #3. I'm really enjoying Wells's characters, their dilemmas and moral reasoning and kindness and awareness. It's just so refreshing right now.

My guess is that this book was a stepping-stone: Wells has an idea of where she wants to take the saga but it wouldn't all fit with the background-establishing here, so we got an action story tossed in and a few loose threads that I'm sure we'll be seeing more of. I'm totally Ok with that.