I liked this better than The Last Colony. To be fair, I honestly didn’t want to read it at first, what with all the critics saying it was YA and so on and so forth. But, this book is quite entertaining and it’s a far cry more adventurous than the one on which it is based. Zoe is well developed and believable, and her relationship with the Obin is one of the better plot devices I’ve seen in any scifi series. The scenes with Hickory and Dickory are among the more entertaining in the entire series. So, yeah, big thumbs up for this one, not perfect but a perfectly enjoyable read nonetheless.