Not my type. Somehow I missed this was a Christian book all the way back when I requested it. I also hate books that set you up with a whole group of people and then just skip over to someone else. It didn’t really feel finished at the end but there’s no 5th book sooooo. The idea of Christians being oppressed was laughable. Everything was nano in this series. Nano ink. Nano coffee. Nano tech. Nano screen. Nano shirt. Nano nano.

"Spark introduces nine-year-old Ali, a beggar living in the Dark Lands city of al-Balat. Ali meets a stranger who gives her his tablet, a portal to a tech world that Ali never knew existed. But one day, the tablet begins to communicate back to her—and takes her on a journey that will cross her path with exiled Logan Langly, Chancellor Cylis, and the fierce battle for power that spans reality and the virtual world."

I honestly wasn't sure how I felt about this installment in one of my favorite series because I thought it would have more of my favorite characters in it than it did, or actually any of them at all, but when I let go of that expectation I found that I was able to enjoy it okay. Little Ali is a tough little cookie, but then she's had to be growing up on the streets like she has. The whole "reality vs. virtual reality" aspect was interesting. I did feel like it jumped around a bit too much, making it hard to follow at times.

All in all, although I was able to enjoy it somewhat, I didn't enjoy it as much as I would have liked. It was well written, I just didn't connect with it the way I did the first three books in the series.

3 out of 5 stars.

*** I would like to thank Evan Angler and the publisher, Thomas Nelson Specialty, for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I didn't like this book as well as I liked the previous three, mostly because it neglects the familiar characters that I've really grown attached to and introduces someone new. I get that you have to propel the story forward, and for the most part I still enjoyed this book. I was just missing some of the "spark" of the previous books.