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I do enjoy this series, but I never quite love it.

Once again, my favorite parts were the character bits - filling in some of the back stories, and watching some of the characters grow. I do sort of wish Frey would grow up a bit more, though. It's like we're sort of meant to believe that he is, but we're never really shown it. At least not in any kind of consistent or meaningful way.

My favorite characters continue to be Jez and Crake, though it was really cool to learn more about Silo.

That said, I find myself having a hard time really getting into the action bits - and there are a lot of them. I think it's just a writing style preference, maybe. I like action sequences that make your pulse pound - maybe not explicit in all the details, but which really make you feel like you're in the moment.

In these books, Wooding seems to go more for describing the details in depth. What the views look like. What actions are being taken. And I found many of them a bit too drawn out to really keep my focus.

The second chase seen between Frey and the Iron Jackal was really good, though.

Conversely, the race thing made me think of the pod-race in the Phantom Menace. Never a good thing.

And the black-spot on the hand curse thing reminded me a bit too much of Pirate's of the Carribean movies (but at least that's better thought than Phantom Menace).

I do still think these books would make really good movies - but I wish the book format was a bit tighter.