Children of Ruin

A good follow up to the first book. The author makes a great effort to look at how intelligent octopus would interact with other life, just as he did with arachnids in the first.

The main problem with these books is the reader doesn't have a character to follow throughout both books. Ivanna is one of the only characters the reader can follow but who has gone from being a human to a computer to good knows what she is now.

A good hook at the end with introducing the faster then light drive (FTL). I'm hoping to see life which humans had no hand in creating and how the new formed union of species in their ships will interact with them.