Like I said, I was pretty bored until the real action started. So it didn’t get exciting for me until three hundred pages into the book. That’s a lot of pages to not grab my full attention. Sadly, I didn’t get what I wanted until the last third of the book. They kept talking about the aliens and what would happen if they got the signal, and I desperately wanted the aliens to come back and spice things up. There was such a buildup in the beginning leading up to the inevitable “aliens receive ship’s signal” that it was almost painful. It felt like there wasn’t much plot except “stop the ship’s signal from reaching the aliens.” I was actually quite bored for the majority beginning, and the middle really dragged. There were things happening but it didn’t feel like anything was really happening, if that makes any sense? The first half felt very redundant. The parts that I loved so much about the first book – namely, the scary aliens – were almost missing from this book. There was some major Second Book Syndrome going on here. It was a space horror through and through and kept you on the edge of your seat. In case you missed my review for Sanctuary, I absolutely loved the first book! It was gripping, the aliens were chilling, and I loved the dark Alien-esque feel it had going for it. Omnistellar has put a bounty on Kenzie’s head-and the question is whether the aliens or Omnistellar get to her first. What Kenzie doesn’t know is that the aliens aren’t the only ones on the hunt. Because if the monstrous creatures who attacked Sanctuary reach Earth, then it’s game over for humanity.

When Kenzie intercepts a radio communication suggesting that more aliens are on their way, she knows there’s only one choice: They must turn themselves in to Omnistellar and destroy the ship before the aliens follow the signal straight to them. Worse still, she’s haunted by memories of the aliens who nearly tore her to shreds-and forced her to accidentally kill one of the Sanctuary prisoners, Matt. Everyone has their own dark secrets: Omnistellar, her parents, even Cage. Kenzie is desperate for a plan, but she doesn’t know who to trust anymore.

Now they’re stuck in a stolen alien ship with nowhere to go and no one to help them. Ex-Omnistellar prison guard Kenzie and her superpowered friends barely made it off Sanctuary alive.

Caryn lix