** spoiler alert ** I thought that this book was much better than the original, which at times was hard to follow and paced a bit too fast. This book was also a bit hard to follow, and while at times paced quicker than I would like, I feel like we got much more of the story than what the first book gave us.

I like James Patterson, although I am not too great of a fan. His books are alright, although sometimes they're a bit hard to swallow because the events occurring aren't explained to their fullest. And the books don't usually have too much character development. This book was a... kind of exception to that, because although Whit and Wisty (two adorable characters) were basically given no growing room, Byron's change was incredible. In the first book he was a snob, and in this book, near the beginning, we find out that he loves Wisty! That just made me giggle. There's a scene where Whit and Wisty are in the Brave New World Center, locked up of course, and Byron comes in and says their parents are behind one of the doors. Wisty says she'll kiss him if thhis turns out to be true, and... well, although they ended up being holograms, their parents were still technically behind the door. And Wisty doesn't kiss him....
Of course, towards the end of the book Byron is a rather not nice person again, because of The One. I hope that the third book will explain Byron's second change of attitude, but I can't count on it to be a satisfactory explanation. As I said, Mr. Patterson is an amazing author, and I respect him for publishing books, but character development and explanation of actions aren't usually explained to their fullest.