Del Rey and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Supernova. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

When a computer virus turned Ananke, once an experimental military spacecraft, into a fully sentient artificial intelligence, Althea, the ship’s engineer and only human aboard, must become teacher and caregiver to the machine. After circumstances as such that Althea and Ananke must return to earth, they find themselves in the middle of a revolution lead by Constance. As technology and humanity come face to face, will the lessons learned lead to total destruction?

Having read Lightless, I had the expectation that Supernova would follow along in a similar style and pace. Unfortunately, I found this book to be overly drawn out, with lifeless characters and very little progression to the story. The characters are also very unlikable, which makes it difficult for the reader to find some common ground. Because of these reasons, I would be hesitant to recommend Supernova to other readers.

A beautiful followup to Lightless! I loved it from the first page and it kept me hooked throughout.

I wasn't able to engage with this title as much as I hoped.

Although I wasn't in love with "Lightless", I decided to give the second book in the trilogy a chance and I'm glad that I did because I liked it more than the first book. There are two intersecting stories being told in this book. One involves Althea, one of the main protagonists in "Lightless", and the airship computer, Ananke, who has become conscious and is exploring her human traits due to a computer bug introduced by her "father" in the previous book. Althea, who is a stronger character than before, considers Ananke her "daughter" and is trying to teach her what it means to be human and ultimately finds it necessary to try to teach her the rules of war. The second thread of the book follows Constance, who is the ruthless leader of a resistance movement that destroys Earth in order to defeat the oppressive System. She has trouble keeping her allies and forces in line after the System is defeated. Ananke is determined to find her "father" who is also a member of this resistance movement. There is a lot of action in each thread of this book, and each ends in a very dark cliffhanger that makes it imperative to read the final book in the trilogy.

I admit that I found the book a little confusing at times because of its constant switching between the periods before and after the destruction of Earth and between the Althea and Constance stories. I was listening to the audiobook and I thought that it might have been easier to follow an ebook, but I tried reading it that way and found that regardless of format there is absolutely nothing in the book to assist the reader when a change in location/pov occurs within a chapter. It always took me a while to figure out whose story I was reading. I hope book three is a little easier to follow.

I received a free copy of the e-book from the publisher however I wound up listening to the audiobook borrowed from the library.