The Fox Inheritance (The Jenna Fox Chronicles)

Fans of book 1 will enjoy parts of this book, but ultimately it is quite a different book. It is narrated by Locke and centers mostly around him and Kara at first. The story starts off a little slow as the book tries to download on us a ton of facts about Locke and Kara and what the world is like 260 years later. But the story does pick up and it does peak your interest. Like book 1, the story is deeply introspective. But Locke is no Jenna. We spend the entire book inside his head, but this is not the way I remember 17 old boys thinking. Let's just say this is a very chaste 17 year old guy. The result is that Locke doesn't have the depth and reality that the author brought to Jenna in book 1. So, maybe the story would have been better served by changing it up and telling it from Kara's perspective or something. In the end, my favorite parts of the book were when Locke is interacting with Jenna, and then only because I'm interested in Jenna, not Locke. But there is a decent story here and it does resolve itself nicely in the end, while trying to set us up for book 3. I will read book 3, but I don't know what to expect. Probably it too will be mostly about Locke and a new caste of characters, and less about Jenna. If so, too bad.

I was completely enthralled by the Adoration of Jenna Fox so I wondered how the author would provide a meaningful sequel. Well...she chose to tell the story from Locke's perspective. This approach lends another voice to the series for a number of reasons. His mind/essence has been in a 6" box for 260 years and is now out in the very, very changed world as a teenager...that is not the same person he was at the time of the accident. He really has no more awareness than Jenna did in the beginning. However, Locke's reentry to the world has been influenced/marred by the researcher who "rescued" him. Locke wasn't a leader back in the day, and now, 260 years really haven't, initially, changed his approach to life. As he learns to grapple with the changes, he muddles through adaptation and grows to appreciate how he needs to deal with life in a more meaningful way. His male perspective is another feature that could get some guys to read the series. Does he love Kara? Dos he love Jenna? Does he want to move on and start anew with a different female in his life?The corruptness of the scientists is maintained.Locke is disturbed that life 260 years later is not improved and folks really didn't work toward the betterment of society. Good solid approach to the warnings of dystopian literature. How far is too far when the preservation of life hangs in the balance. What does it mean to live alive? Perception varies regarding scientific advancement. How far is too far when the advancements are more for economic gain rather than the improvement of the quality of life? When "creating" a person, how far is too far given the decision making process? Who should decide? Then....when legal approaches to getting laws change don't work, does that reasonably open doors for an underground network in order to produce change that is really equitable for all?Although I enjoyed the Adoration of Jenna Fox more, the sequel made sense and made me want to find out how Locke was going to sink or swim now that he was developing as a person.Two characters that were interesting: Dot and MieshaThe Trilogy??? Will the next story be about Allys or Miesha or Kayla?

Spoiler-free review. Because the central voice of this book is different from the first one, this sequel doesn't feel as much like a sequel as I would have liked. I really liked Jenna Fox and I would have liked to hear more from her point of view. But the characters we follow in this book make sense, and the plot is interesting. I wish the Kara character had been a little more interesting--she often feels like a plot device rather than a character and this weakens the relationship of other characters to her. But I enjoyed learning more about what has happened to the world and how Jenna Fox has changed it. Locke is a compelling character, too, and I cared about what happened to him. An enjoyable chapter in a good series.

I enjoyed this book quite a lot even though I'm way past the young adult age. It covered a long time span and I enjoyed that. The characters were varied and pretty believable. My one complaint is that the characters, at least the young ones, got way too angsty sometimes but I think that's because the book was written primarily for teenagers. All in all, an enjoyable book. I'm just about to buy the last book of the series!

The book is good, I like it being from Locke’s perspective. It, like the first is about relationships between people.

As I started this second book I have to say I was hoping to read more from Jenna's perspective and I didn't think I would like it as much as I liked the first book....but I was wrong. This futuristic book explores a great story line of what happens if the human soul can be put in a box and then brought back into and almost 'eternal' life. As a continuation from 'The Adoration of Jenna Fox', I loved finding out what happened with Kara and Locke and we are given that closure with this book...I trully hope to see this become a movie!