An H4H (Humans 4 Humans) conference is happening in town, and Jimi, Rex, and all the other E4E (Earth 4 Everyone) believers do what they can to make their voices heard. There are signs, protests, and even a secret meeting for leaders of both sides to have a civil conversation. Until the secret meeting gets blown up. And Jimi was supposed to be there, but she wasn’t. Now the FBI, H4H groups, and E4E groups are on her back about what happened and why she wasn’t there.

I had high hopes, and they were not reached. The first 50 pages were pretty good. The last 50 pages were okay. Everything in-between made me want to quit reading. It was so repetitive and political and ridiculous; it made me want to throw the book across the room. I’ll give you a recap: Jimi and Rex go to a protest, they leave because people start fighting, they “talk” (a list of political and current events—no actual dialogue), they watch the news (entire news broadcast recap), Jimi goes to Claudia’s, they watch the news, Jimi and Rex go for a drive, they “talk” (the same list), they get abducted, they talk and talk some more with the people who abducted them, Jimi goes home, she watches the news, Jimi goes to Claudia’s, and then we start all over with another protest.

Aside from the entire plot line, there were a few other things that made me mad. The first book in the series was centered on friendship. Yes, Jimi and Del’s friendship fell apart, but she met Rex, Ruth, Pell, and Sly. Together they could save the world. In the second book, Ruth and Pell were basically nowhere to be found and Sly was in and out of the storyline, but not necessarily showing any loyalty to this amazing friendship that had been built. I ignored the fact that they weren’t in more of the book because Claudia was brought back into the picture and it was fun to see Jimi and Claudia’s relationship grow. Also, everything was fast paced and it was more of a in the right place at the right time kind of thing. I didn’t like how Jimi and Rex were separated for a good chunk of the book, but it was so that Jimi could save Rex so that was nice. But I wanted more Rex. In this book, Ruth, Pell, and Sly were doing the same thing as in the last book. Sly being more of a jerk, especially since we found out in the last book that he and Rex had been best friends for years. Claudia had some stuff going on with her family that made her more vulnerable and not in a good way. It made her seem like a completely different person, almost weak. And Rex. What was he good for? To stand there and look pretty? He never actually had a real conversation with anybody, let alone Jimi. He did what Jimi told him to do. And drank tea. That’s about it. Let’s not even get me started on how these seventeen-year-olds should not be this reliant on coffee and tea.

The other major issue was that when the plot deviated from its repetitiveness (the first and last 50 pages), I still knew what was going to happen because I called it halfway through the first book. I enjoyed the first two books because they didn’t follow the obvious path and do what I expected. They were ridiculous and unbelievable in the best way, where this was just common sense. And why should anything change and the world believe that Howard Wells is a bad guy after the events of this book which had less evidence and more hypothetical, than the other books which definitely had more evidence? Because this time people other than Chimeras were dying? Way to play into the discrimination that was supposedly only H4H, not the world.

So, the first two books of the series were good. This one was not. If I had known how much I would dislike this book before I read it, I probably still would have read it because I wanted some closure for Jimi and Rex (I didn’t really get it). And I won’t read this one again. If you want to save yourself the trouble, head on over to our recap of the series where you’ll learn everything you need to know.