Feeling the Vibes

You know, I think I have to compare this series to the Maximum Ride books. They're so, so different on the surface of it, but that series tries to make Big Statements About The World too, especially in the later books. And it's really not great. I read those as a teen, in the target audience, and they seemed trite and preachy and all the messages seemed painfully out of place. They went from “ooh, evil scientists and DNA experiments!” to “YOU MUST SAVE THE WORLD!” and then whiplashed into “You must save the world specifically via ending global climate change!” with some mind control and evil robots thrown in for giggles. And these manage to evolve just beautifully from “time travel is real and we're gonna help people!” to “we're gonna help people on a bigger scale” to “oh my god what is humanity doing to the place, how can we help there?” and it's impressively not preachy! I'm delighted.