Chase and Parker are two boys thrown together when Chase seemingly magically appears inside the security perimeter of Parker's safe house. Chase has a wound in his head and no memories of his past life, not even his own name which is retrieved from an identity chip in him. The boys defy the advice of Parker's android caretaker (following directives left by Parker's guardian) and the doctor caring for Chase, and go off planet. But it turns out a good thing they do when the entire planet explodes. And when the boys rescue a drifting guy in space, they unwittingly pick up the prime suspect in the planet's destruction. Soon they are on a wild ride across the galaxy trying to avoid bounty hunters, figure out who destroyed the planet, find a safe haven and get some answers as to who Chase is.

It took me forever to get through this, primarily because both Chase and Parker were driving me crazy. (Also, the overuse of eye-rolling...at one point I was going to scream if one more person rolled their eyes!) Parker is a spoiled preteen know-it-all who clearly does NOT know it all. Chase is sometimes likeable, but sometimes just frozen in indecision moaning that he doesn't have memories... and he really needed to speak up and just tell Parker to shut his mouth. Granted, the memory thing is a big issue, but you can tell Chase has more brains than Parker even if Parker did have more street smarts. I think if Parker and Chase had been less annoying, I would have torn through this. The plot, even though it consisted of a lot of out of the frying pan and into the fire moments, was on the whole interesting. I was curious to find out who Chase was, and the end of this book wraps that up enough I feel no need to pick up the next book. The whole mystery of who destroyed the planet is still to be answered and why what happened to Chase happened, but I can't deal with Parker any more. Especially since yet another kid with a chip on her shoulder was introduced who'll be integral in that story.