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    The Fox Inheritance
    The Fox Inheritance
    The Fox Inheritance
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    The Fox Inheritance

    Written by Mary E. Pearson

    Narrated by Matthew Brown

    3.5/5

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    Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries.

    Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead.

    Everyone except Jenna Fox.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateAug 30, 2011
    ISBN9781427213808
    Author

    Mary E. Pearson

    Mary E. Pearson is the international and New York Times bestselling author of the Dance of Thieves duology, the Remnant Chronicles trilogy, the Jenna Fox Chronicles, and more books for young readers. The Courting of Bristol Keats is Mary’s debut novel for adults. She writes from her home in California.

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    • 3/5
      If you've haven't read The Adoration of Jenna Fox, you probably want to stop here, because I'll be spoiling some parts of the first book. Just a heads up...........Okay, here goes. The Fox Inheritance is the second book in the Jenna Fox Chronicles, but it's told from the point of view of Locke, one of Jenna's friends that did not survive the accident she was in. Locke and Kara's bodies died in the accident, but Jenna's father made the copies of their minds that we find out about in the first book. Jenna destroys the hard drives containing those copies at the very end of the first book, but what she doesn't know is that there are more copies. Uh-oh. So Locke and Kara are re-created in much the same manner as Jenna was, but by someone with a more sinister agenda in mind for them. Oh yeah, and this is 260 years later, after Locke and Kara's minds have been floating in the vast darkness for all that time. The Fox Inheritance follows Locke and Kara as they try to get away, specifically telling the story from Locke's point of view.The story is quite a bit different from the first book, but it is just as well-written and entertaining. One thing that was cool this time around was that we got to see some of Pearson's world building in action, since this second book is set 260 years after the first one. I thought she did a good job of creating a believable world that didn't outshine the characters, but provided a good background in which the story could unfold nicely. I think I enjoyed The Adoration of Jenna Fox a little more, but The Fox Inheritance was a great read as well.
    • 4/5
      Fantastic sequel to "The Adoration of Jenna Fox." I was hesitant to read it at first, since it was narrated by Locke and not Jenna's story. But I got over that pretty quickly. Locke is an awesome character and it was easy to let him take me on this journey. I love the futuristic world that Pearson builds here. Every detail was so vivid, from the landscape to social issues.
    • 2/5
      I really liked the first book, which I found both believable and moving. I was less enamored of this one, partly because it takes place further in the future and so it loses that edge of almost-reality. [Nov. 2011]
    • 4/5
      I have not read the book that precedes this one, but I enjoyed this one nevertheless. The predicament of the main character(s) was an interesting one, as was the future world portrayed in the book. I was interested right away to find out where the book was going and how things would work out for the protagonist. I found the pace just right, and the narration in the audiobook was very engaging. Good YA science fiction, of which, in my opinion, there's generally not enough!
    • 4/5
      Jenna thought she had destroyed her friends downloads, but unscrupulous men had saved them and brought them back to life. Once again the author grapple with what makes one human... there’s some adventure, some conflict, and sacrifice.
    • 2/5
      I really liked the first in this series, "The Adoration of Jenna Fox". It was new and different, and was a very fast read. This one was more forced and I waded a bit through the story. Ability to skim so much and stay with the story is not a good thing.

      ***SPOILERS***

      Locke is so irritating that I wanted to slap him. He was passive, meek and lacked the ability to make a decision that wasn't approved by Kara. It would have been acceptable if he had found his voice earlier in the book, but even when he came to the realization of the nature of his existence, he still didn't have the foresight/insight/intelligence to make a rational decision. As a matter of fact, this is my note about 1/2 way through "I'm about to lose my patience for the moron."

      Kara, the antagonist of the two, was more relatable because she suffered a fatal flaw from bringing her back. Her decisions I understood, and her ultimate sacrifice meant that much more, because she was able to overcome the monster she had become.

      Jenna seemed too good to be true and I still don't trust Meisha; but, I will have to read the next book to know.

      Overall, it's not a bad series, even though this one worked on my nerves a little. It is a Young Adult book, and I think the YA reader is a bit more forgiving than I can be. With that said, I will read the next one in the series, "Fox Forever".
    • 4/5
      3.75 starsThis is the second book in a series. Locke and Cara have been “asleep” for 260 years. They were in a car crash with their friend Jenna that many years ago, and although Jenna's father was able to bring her back at the time, using 10% of her brain, Locke and Cara weren't woken up until 260 years later. After about a year of the doctor/scientist who brought them back getting them up to speed on life now, Cara and Locke figure out that he'll never let them go, as they are “floor models” to selling the technology. They need to get out and find Jenna, who is still alive...I listened to the audio and it did a good job of keeping my attention. I quite liked this. It's been way too long since I read the first one to remember anything about it, so I can't really compare. Things didn't go as I expected when they met up with Jenna. Definitely worth continuing the series for anyone who has read the first one, I think. I'll continue on, as well.
    • 3/5
      Set 260 years after The Adoration of Jenna Fox, this book follows the lives of Locke and Kara, Jenna's friends who were with her in the original accident. The story is narrated by Locke, who is extremely introspective and provides a surprisingly calm narrative -- which may be part and parcel of having had his consciousness locked in a little box for 260 years.If you've read the first book, you're undoubtedly curious to continue the narrative and read this one. Personally, I found this book less engaging than the first one, for a few reasons. First, the introspective behavior meant that even with plenty of action going on around Locke and his character, it never really felt active because of the interruption of his thoughts. We're also dumped into the future, 260 years later... and while there are hints of future reality -- non-Pacts, rebellion, V-screens, etc. -- we don't get to understand the future world in a way that might make the story more immersive and believable. It was a little frustrating to not understand society and only have hints dropped, but I suspect we'll have a better rounded view of the worldbuilding in the third book (yes, there is a third book). It wasn't a bad book, by any means, and the Bot character of Dot and one other (who I won't reveal the name of because, spoilers) were the most intriguing of everyone involved. I wish we'd had more of them instead of Locke's never ending thoughts, but like I said, it wasn't bad. I didn't put it down at any point in frustration, I merely turned the last page feeling mildly indifferent.That said, I do plan to read the third one, as I'm curious as to how the rest of the story will play out.
    • 5/5
      “*4.5 stars*This was an awesome sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox, to me it was even better. We get to see Locke and Kara wake up 260 yrs. later and things have changed quite a bit. There is a lot more action and adventure in this book and I loved the Bots! Dot was such an awesome character, I felt myself feeling emotions as if she were a human. We get to learn so much more about what happened on the night of the accident. Also, got to know Locke better, which only made me love him! I have to say this was an awesome book and hope that last one is just as good!
    • 3/5
      This review contains spoilers for The Adoration of Jenna Fox.The first book in the series is a story of discovery, of Jenna's discovery of her new body and her new self and her parents' choices and deception. This book is less subtle, with less inner turmoil and more straightforward action. Backups of Locke and Kara's destroyed recordings were discovered and new bodies were created for them. Together they escape their "savior" and set off to find Jenna.I enjoyed The Fox Inheritance, but it didn't seem as thorough or complete a story as the first book. There are hints of all kinds of things - Escapees and Non-Pacts, a civil war and a divided America - but it all happened while Locke and Kara were stuck in their computers, so we only learn the bits and pieces that they're told on their frantic journey. The book feels incomplete. Maybe the third book will fill in some of the gaps.
    • 3/5
      Most people liked the first book better but I liked The Fox Inheritance more.Maybe because it was more action filled. This book is about Jenna (book 1) and her 2 dead friends who died in the accident. Or so we and Jenna think. I loved Dot the Bot. The world we only saw glimpses of was interesting. I do think there will be another book. This book is not good enough to give it 4 stars. (4 star books for me are books I might even want to re-read and I do not want to read this one again) so I will give it 3 stars on goodreads but it is 3.5
    • 2/5
      Last year, I read The Adoration of Jenna Fox. When I heard there was going to be a sequel I was surprised and excited, especially since the viewpoint would be from someone new. One of my biggest problems with book one was that Jenna was not an especially likable narrator. Alas, sometimes it would be best for an author to let a story close without writing a sequel; this is one of those times for me.

      Locke did not make a better narrator for one thing. He never really coalesced into a real person. There just doesn't seem to be much to him; he may actually consist only of his love/obsession for Kara and Jenna. Rather than being focused on the ethical dilemmas involved in these technologies like the first book, I felt that the melodrama upstaged those questions.

      The love triangle just creeped me out. I agree with Alyss that it's not possible to be in love with two people at once, so I just could not care about Locke and his desperate need to please and be with both girls. The society is what's so interesting here, but the focus isn't really on that.

      Much of the plot was predictable, especially the climax. The unexpected things, like Jenna having a daughter, were not happy surprises. Reading over what I've written here, it definitely sounds like I hated this; I didn't, but it was hugely disappointing. On a five star scale, I would probably give it a 2.5/5, if that helps any.
    • 4/5
      This sequel to THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX takes place 260 after the events of that story and are told form Locke's point of view. He and Kara have been removed from the black boxes where they spent those years and given strong, healthy new bodies. Locke is wondering when the doctor who did the procedures—Dr. Gatsbro—will let them leave his isolated estate.He learns that Jenna is still alive. He also learns that the doctor who rebuilt their bodies is planning to sell his procedure to the highest bidder even though the procedure is still illegal. He and Kara decide to escape from the estate and make their way to where Jenna is. Locke has come through those isolated years sane; Kara has not. She blames Jenna for their long period of isolation and is determined to have revenge on her. The story is a journey story. Locke experiences both the physical journey of traveling across the country and the emotional journey of adjusting to a world that is completely strange to him and in which everyone he loved—except Jenna and Kara—are gone. He makes friends along the way with a CabBot named Dot and with one of the humans who was one of his caretakers—Meisha. The story gives a reader a lot to think about as they contemplate what makes a human. The story also made me think about the nature of friendship and love. I liked watching Locke grow and I really liked connecting with Jenna again.
    • 4/5
      The style of the first book (The Adoration of Jenna Fox) was introspective and thought-provoking. The tone of The Fox Inheritance however, was intense. It had chase scenes, fist fights, and even dipped into the realm of the psychological thriller at the end.Where Jenna’s story was all about identity and what is required to make a person fully human, Locke’s and Kara’s story is more action-packed. The issues of identity and sentience were addressed in small ways throughout the plot, but there is much more tension and suspense as the characters run for their lives.I was skeptical about whether or not this book could carry on the story in a meaningful way. The Adoration of Jenna Fox had such a concrete ending and didn’t seem open to a sequel about Locke and Kara. My doubts were dealt with quickly at the beginning of the story, and the explanation of how these characters were brought back was completely logical.If you like fast-paced dystopian fiction then I recommend reading The Fox Inheritance. You don’t have to read The Adoration of Jenna Fox first to understand the story, but you will probably appreciate it more if you do.
    • 4/5
      Fantastic sequel to "The Adoration of Jenna Fox." I was hesitant to read it at first, since it was narrated by Locke and not Jenna's story. But I got over that pretty quickly. Locke is an awesome character and it was easy to let him take me on this journey. I love the futuristic world that Pearson builds here. Every detail was so vivid, from the landscape to social issues.
    • 4/5
      After 260-years of purgatory, Locke Jenkins awakens with a body that seems familiar - yet somehow changed. His friend, Kara, who died in the car crash that killed Locke, also has a achingly similar body...but her mind isn't quite right. Locke and Kara soon learn that their minds had been downloaded and saved centuries ago by the father of Jenna Fox - another victim of the fatal crash. Although Jenna had been given a new life right away, the copies of Locke's and Kara's minds had collected digital dust until Dr. Gatsbro brought the teens back to life in this brave new world. But Dr. Gatsbro's motives are not altruistic. Locke and Kara make a desperate attempt to escape the doctor's nefariousness clutches...and are jettisoned into the foreign world of the future. But can Locke keep Kara from making a terrible mistake?When I read The Adoration of Jenna Fox years ago I really liked it, but as I was reading The Fox Inheritance, I realized that I remembered almost nothing of the first book (perhaps it wasn't so great after all?). I had to rely on spoiler reviews of the first book, and on the hints-of-what-came-before in the second book to remember. This made the first part of the book rather confusing. I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with The Adoration of Jenna Fox before starting The Fox Inheritance. Although I enjoyed this book, I wasn't as impressed as I had been after reading the first in the trilogy. The Fox Inheritance had some world-building and good characters. It brought some interesting moral issues to the table: Is it ethical to bring someone back to life after they're dead - and risk changes? Is it ethical to use a sentient being that of human-creation for our own purposes, or do they deserve civil rights? These are intriguing questions, but they've been explored in many other books/movies. So, in the end, I liked this book. It was a fun read. I'll probably pick up the third book when it comes out. But I would have been perfectly happy if this trilogy had stayed as ONE standalone book. And I'm pretty sure I'll forget the plot of this book within a few weeks.
    • 4/5
      In The adoration of Jenna Fox, Jenna was saved by having her mind put into a new, man-made body. Her father was unable to save her friends Locke and Kara, even though their minds were uploaded before death just like hers was. Hoping to release them from the living hell they were trapped in, Jenna threw the machines housing their electronic minds into a lake. Her friends were truly dead … or were they?In this sequel, a dubious scientist has brought Locke and Kara back to life 270 years after their bodies died. When they find out he is not as altruistic as he claims to be, Locke and Kara escape from him and go in search of the last link to their old lives: Jenna. It’s a strange new world of bots and automated superhighways, and Dr. Gatsbro is on their trail. Can Locke and Kara find Jenna? And if they do, what are Kara’s motives? Locke isn’t so sure anymore …What does it really mean to be “human”? Is it your mind or your physical body that determines who and what you are? You’ll think about these questions and more when you read The Fox inheritance.
    • 4/5
      The Adoration of Jenna Fox was a phenomenal book! Have you read it, if not, please do so. It was amazing! Seriously. And while I found myself really looking forward to something else relating to Jenna – I think as a standalone book, Jenna Fox was perfect. With that said, The Fox Inheritance, made me hopeful that we would once again hear from Jenna and learn more about her world. And that we did! To my surprise we also learned more about the fateful night of the accident and the outcome Locke and Kara. Locke and Kara have been in a suspended state of endless darkness where the only thing that kept them sane was each other’s voices. Centuries after being forgotten on a shelf they are found by – what I would call – a mad scientist. Who, with personal ambition in mind, resurrects their mind downloads and brings Locke and Kara back to life. 260 years after their death they are once again in human form with only one thing recognizable in this ever-changed world…. Jenna Fox. While I can’t say I loved this sequel, I can definitely say I was intrigued. I liked the way the author brings back all the same questions, doubts, issues that Jenna went through while also giving it a more drastic doom and gloom feel. While Jenna woke up shortly after her accident, Locke and Kara have lost everything and everyone they knew in their lives. I liked the character dynamics and the emotional turmoil the kids were facing.
    • 3/5
      ** spoiler alert **This is a sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox if you have not yet read that book, beware this review will contain spoilers.260 years after leaving Jenna's story we travel across what used to be the United States to the Eastern states. We find out that unbeknownst to Jenna's father, one of his co-workers kept a copy of Locke and Kara's information. They have been brought back to life to be visual examples of Dr G's business. He keeps them hidden away in his mansion and displayed for wealthy businessmen to come and admire for the technology. Even though they are illegal specimens, it is known (because of Jenna) that it is possible, medically to reconstruct so much of the body with only the minimum cell samples. Early in the story Kara is unsatisfied with their current situation, and now that she has heard that Jenna is still alive, she has some questions that need answering, and they decide to escape.This side of the story is told from Lock's perspective. He is concerned about Kara's determination to find Jenna, she has mysterious and dangerous thoughts in her head and he fears for Jenna's safety. He is also still deeply in love with Jenna and desires them to all be reunited.I found the author's vision of the future in this book was very interesting. The United States being separated into two sections, run by politics. The Republicans and the Democrats and you can only move to a different side of the country every 8 years. There are also added factors of the nomads in which she refers to as "land pirates" as well as super fast moving cars, trains and more intelligent robot/cyborg beings. It is highly imaginative and yet a believable and interesting look of what could be possible for our future.My mind had a hard time grasping some more of the emotions that occur within Jenna, Locke and Kara. Most of them would include huge spoilers for you, but mostly I felt it hard to grasp onto how many emotions they have for being reanimated people. They not only experience human emotions of hate, anger, love, guilt and depression but it's the level in which they "feel' these emotions I had a hard time with. It's all very dramatic and overly emotional even for humans. In the first book we are also introduced to the fact that Jenna must eat only a bag of nutrients only every couple of hours to sustain her system, but in this continuation of the story, I don't remember there being any emphasis on the nutrients supplements, even in one part it refers to Lock eating off plates, but I don't remember being filled in with any information or changes in the technology that allowed them to be able to handle real food.The narrator for the audio book did a great job. There were times that I had to remind myself that this is somebody being reanimated after centuries and very confused about what was going on in the world because there were huge sections of just information about what he was thinking and "feeling". He is in a body that is similar to the one he has always known, but doesn't seem to be quite the same or work the same way. Although there is a lot of traveling from the East coast to the West coast and we get to meet a lot of different types of dangerous people along the way 80% of the story is just Locke's thoughts about what is happening, or did happen to him in the past. The narrator for the audiobook does a really good job of voicing the side characters as well.It is an interesting and unique twist to a science fiction look into our futures. How one day the advances in medicine and technology can bring us so close to being able to live for centuries at a time and still maintain our most basic of human emotions and drive to survive.
    • 5/5
      I guess people have different perspectives on this novel versus Jenna Fox, but while I thought Jenna Fox was beautifully written, it was so enclosed by location and plot that I felt like the story was limited.This was not the case for the Fox Inheritance. Locke and Kara were more intriguing to me than Jenna was-they were cooped up for years and then... didn't come back right? And the world had to get so much bigger now that we have fast-forwarded 200 years in the future and they have to come cross country to find Jenna. However, the star in the novel was Dot. She was the bravest non-human I've ever met! I was impressed by the scope of the novel, the description of how everything had changed, and the new technology that had been developed. All of these things were far more difficult to do in a book and I believe that Pearson succeeds.This book is definitely a must read for any dystopian YA fans!
    • 4/5
      In The Adoration of Jenna Fox, we learned about Jenna herself, a girl who had been in a terrible car accident and scientifically re-engineered afterwards. Now, over two hundred years later, we learn what happened to her two friends, Locke and Kara.This is primarily Locke's story, as he is the narrator, and we jump in a year after he and Kara have recovered and are living with the doctor who gave them new bodies, using even less than 10% of their original bodies. As with Jenna Fox, much of the thematic element deals with the ethical questions of what makes someone human, what makes them more than an animal or machine. While it wasn't a bad book, my main frustration was that it never seemed to be "more." It rehashed the same themes, and, in my opinion, had the same downfall - those who are somehow less than human are empty, have "dead eyes," and this is never really explained or explored further. While I was reading, I enjoyed the story, but it's not one I'll mull in my mind as long as the first book.
    • 4/5
      I decided to do these two books as a set, rather than individual books. Mainly the reasoning is because I feel the same way about both books- so to save my readers from reading the same review twice, I am giving you a combo! (Also, it is nice to see the books in a series- sometimes I pick up a book I read a review of and find out it is the second book in the series.)The most obvious assumption of these books- they were fabulous. The writing was excellent, the characters were developed well, and the author's storytelling is outstanding. But what made these books stand apart for me- they made me think. What is human life? At what percentage does human life start and end? I found myself pausing throughout both books thinking to myself the hard questions that the reader must face. What is humanity? There are so many ethical questions with this book- it seems like a fantastic book series to be read in a group. I can only imagine the conversations that these books would cause. I can't say they are my favorite books, and I probably won't read them again and again (they are too heavy for that!) I will say, though, that this book series has joined a very special group- the group of books that have changed and shaped me. This is a very special book series and I think anyone would enjoy it- sci-fi fan or not.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed The Fox Inheritance, but not as much as The Adoration of Jenna Fox. Yes, some questions were answered, and the characters were well-developed but the "Inheritance" did not flow as well. This sequel is set 260 years after the fatal accident. It focuses on Locke and Kara and their struggle to find out who and what they are.
    • 3/5
      First Impressions: When The Adoration of Jenna Fox was released a couple of years ago, I read it and fell in love with the story. It was one of the first books that re-attracted me back into the world of Young Adult novels, so I was thrilled to receive this book for a review. In the first book, I had loved the quick pace of the storyline and the unforgettable characters. I knew that I would love this second book just as much, if not more.First 50 Pages: Before I started to read The Fox Inheritance, I decided to revisit the first book and do a quick re-read so I could freshen my memory of the story line. Once I was done, I dived into the second book and read the entire book in a couple of hours. The second book is narrated by Locke and I immediately noticed that I didn’t connect as well with this character. In the first novel, if you have read it, you know that a particular incident sets the whole story in motion, a car accident. In this second novel, we get to revisit the car accident and find out more about that incident in greater detail that answers some questions that the first book doesn’t really cover.Characters & Plot: While I don’t think that this second novel is up to par with the first, the characters and the plot did have deeper, emotional attributes. Set in the future, 260 years after the car accident, The Fox Inheritance dives into great depth on an emotional level. Locke has to deal with not only his past, but making his way into an uncertain future. The book is jam-packed with all sorts of themes that I thought were a bit heavier than the first book. She introduces the concepts of forgiveness and guilt, letting go, and embracing unwanted change. The author really shines when she goes head-first with human nature and the concept of light VS dark. I could spend hours pointing out all of the themes in this book and analyze them to the ground. It’s one of those books I can easily see being used in a classroom setting for students to learn about book themes.This book has its ups and downs, per say. While I loved the themes and the darker imagery, the characters were not as well thought out. Their voices lacked a bit. I also feel as though the style of writing wasn’t nearly as good as the first book. It seemed jumpy at certain points and I had a difficult time keeping track of what exactly was going on.Final Thoughts: I didn’t love this book as much as I thought I would. I had high expectations and this book didn’t quite reach all of them. Still, it is a good companion novel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox. The Fox Inheritance leaves off with an open ending, so I’m curious to see if there will be another addition to the series. I hope so!
    • 4/5
      Interesting! Reminded me of the film 'I, Robot'. I even had to fight my tears at one point. Two questions puzzled me though: Why did Dr Ash make a copy of Locke and Kara's minds, but not Jenna's? And who hit Dr Gatsbro on the head?
    • 2/5
      I may have been living under a rock for the past year, but it was only recently that I read The Adoration of Jenna Fox, which was an excellent book. I was a little concerned about a sequel though, as Adoration seemed like it was a stand-alone novel, and not really worth continuing. But, Fox Inheritance showed up on shelves this year, either proving that the publisher that this was a profitable enough franchise to continue, or that the author had more story to tell.Barely a few pages into Fox Inheritance, I knew that this book suffered from the former. More than anything, Fox Inheritance felt like an unnecessary sequel that added absolutely nothing to the original story. With such a massive time-jump, the author could virtually start the plot over that could be sustainable over numerous volumes. However, the plot of Inheritance was so far from the original concept of Adoration that I didn't even recognize it. It may as well have been a completely unrelated book that started a new series.Sadly, this is the end of the road for me and Mary Pearson. Adoration was an excellent book, but this was something else completely that didn't make much sense and is, frankly, not needed.
    • 4/5
      I absolutely loved the battle between science and morality that was presented in The Adoration of Jenna Fox. Without giving too much away (in case you haven't read it YET), Jenna Fox and her friends were in a horrible accident. At that time, technology had advanced so much that an entire human body could be replicated- not just cloned, but regrown, with everything it had before. But, the catch was, you could only reproduce up to a certain amount. For Jenna to live, an illegal amount of replication was necessary which left her father, the scientist who invented the technology, the tough choice of breaking the law, or letting his child die. Jenna lived.It's a remarkable story of self acceptance and adaptation and a damn fine dystopian novel. The Fox Inheritance is the sequel.Jenna was not the only one involved in the accident. Her two best friends were involved as well but their bodies were so far gone that even the Biogel technology could not save them. Before their bodies expired, Jenna's father uploaded the data from Kara and Locke's brains. Whether he had hoped to replicate them at that time or not, he did it just in case. When Jenna discovered that the essence of her two best friends were trapped inside a holding device inevitably, she did the kindest thing she could think to do and had the boxes containing what was left of Kara and Locke destroyed.But every good technician makes backups, and a rogue scientist at the Biogel lab made copies of Kara and Locke, and what remained of them, their brains, sat trapped in those boxes, forgotten for 260 years. And they can remember every excruciating, horrible day of it.So it's not a stretch to believe that when they are given new bodies and a second chance at life, they harbor much resentment. They endured an unthinkable hell and they blamed Jenna, because she got to live. Irrational? Yes, but it was the only thing they had to hold on to. Jenna is still alive, 260 years later and they feel she needs to answer for abandoning them. I struggled with this concept perhaps the most throughout this story and tried to feel things from Locke and Kara's point of view. Jenna was blameless. She couldn't do anything about the situation and their 260 year old vendetta wasn't realistic to me. I would have thought they'd go after the lab, or the government that wouldn't let them be reproduced. Jenna's my girl, and if it came down to it, I'd want Kara and Locke eliminated to save her. This is where I leave you on the story line. Kara and Locke are on the run from their creator, and hell bent of finding Jenna. You'll just have to read it to find out what they do to her.The world created in The Adoration was already riddled with scientific discoveries that are unfathomable in this day and age, but 260 years later the world has evolved into the most brilliant sci-fi setting. Fierce security regulations, everything automated and computerized, robots replacing people, humanity's ever slipping hold on itself. Good stuff, and yet, outside of the system, a much more primitive normality can be found, where life goes on day to day just as it always has. I loved that. I like the fear that a good dystopian evokes in me, but I love love when even in the worst of imaginable conditions, there is enough hope to drive people to hold on to the simple things that matter. We see a lot of that when we get to visit with Jenna again.I love Pearson's story telling. It's smooth and fast-paced. She gives you everything you want but layers it with enough emotion to make you work for it. And she gives you Officer Dot Jefferson- we should all be so lucky as to have a Dot."Customer Locke, I may not have everything you do, but I have more than you think and much more than I ever dreamed of. I told you, Bots dream. At least some of us do. Whether we are supposed to or not, whether it was ever planned or not, we dream. Some of us think beyond our cabs, we imagine where our customers go and what things they see. When they jump into our cabs, we imagine where they have been, and how it has changed them. Their worlds become our secret worlds, and sometimes we share those places with other likes us and sometimes we even dare to dream that those worlds could be ours one day. We don't know if that could ever be true for us, but we hear stories. And now...I am one of those stories. Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more."
    • 3/5
      This is the second installment of the eventual trilogy "The Jenna Fox Chronicles." The first book was The Adoration of Jenna Fox. When I started to read the second, I actually stopped and went back and reread the first because it I had forgotten a lot and it was a little confusing otherwise. I hadn't been wowed by the first book, but I found the premise interesting enough to continue on; the second one struck me as a bit better than the first.The story begins 260 years after Jenna Fox was saved from a should-have-been fatal car accident that took the lives of her two best friends, Locke and Kara. In the first book, Jenna’s father Matthew had developed Bio Gel to restore Jenna’s body along with the uploaded data from her mind. In the second book, we discover that the brains of Locke and Kara were salvaged also along with some of their DNA, but they were not restored. Finally, after years in limbo, they too get corporeal, thanks to new advances in Bio Gel, now called Bio Perfect. A year after their awakening, Locke and Kara are still kept in a captive but comfortable state by the scientist who restored them, Dr. Gatsbro, so that they can be presented as “success stories" to other potential customers for the life-preserving gel. But the two want to leave the estate, and they especially want to find Jenna and see why she never helped them. With the help of some unlikely comrades in a radically changed world, they set out to escape from Dr. Gatsbro, and to experience the lives that were taken from them when they were just teenagers.Evaluation: There is a lot to think about in this not fabulous but not bad book; is there a threshold of bionic replacements beyond which we are no longer human? How should “human” be defined anyway? And is love possible or even advisable when one of the parties ages and the other does not? As I indicated in my review of the first book, these topics have been tackled by other authors in a better way (compare, for example, Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein). But Pearson adds a coming of age angle and even a bit of "The Jetsons" that should help teens relate to this particular version of a provocative plotline.
    • 4/5
      My daughter and I loved The Adoration of Jenna Fox and were excited about this sequel which takes place 260 years later when Jenna's best friends Locke and Kara who had been supposedly killed in the accident that Jenna survived have been brought back to life, thanks to an evil scientist who stole copies of their mind downloads. While this book had action and a cool futuristic ideas, for me, the story lacked the mystery of the first book. The plot was very predictable and the characters weren't really that interesting, with the exception of Dot. The writing is good though. Both my daughter and I rate it as pretty good--3.5 stars.
    • 3/5
      Brief Description: A sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox, this book chronicles the awakening of Jenna’s friends Kara and Locke after 260 years of “cyber-hiberation.” Only their minds were kept alive in digital form, but new technology developed by a Dr. Gatsbro makes it possible for Kara and Locke to have new bodies (based on their old bodies but better) and a new life. However, 260 years of being trapped and isolated have affected Kara and Locke—with Kara being changed most profoundly. When they realize that Dr. Gatsboro is not quite the benevolent savior they thought, Kara and Locke decide they need to escape and find the only person from their past who is still alive—Jenna Fox.My Thoughts: I was really disappointed in The Adoration of Jenna Fox. I thought the premise was fantastic but poorly executed. (However, I was in the minority as many bloggers fell in love with the book.) I almost passed on reading this sequel but curiosity got the better of me—mostly because I was surprised to see a sequel. (As I recall, the first book said Jenna had destroyed the computers containing Kara and Locke’s minds.) I’m pleased to report that I liked this book better—probably because my expectations weren’t as high. Narrated by Locke, the book has more action (an escape and cross-country chase), and the future world that Pearson created interested me (particularly the relations between bots and humans). Although I thought this book was better than the first one, I still didn’t fall in love. The writing was simplistic, the plot was predictable and some discrepancies just bugged me. Perhaps, most importantly, I just couldn’t buy into the idea that people’s minds could be kept alive digitally. However, if you can suspend your critical thinking and read the first book, you’ll probably enjoy this one too.