Ayaka, Millicent, and the rest of the team return to Tilt in order to save their comrades, but things don't go as planned. A new menace, the Resurgence, are hot on their heals, and the team has to move quickly to save themselves, and some of the AI's they have developed.
A great continuation of the previous story and the debate over what intelligence really is, as the main character and her team continue to learn and adapt. I really appreciate the science in these science fiction books. The programming aspects are always interesting to me as is the engineering. But it is also very much a character story so we do get a lot of internal dialogue as well as conversations between characters. In this series that works really well for me. I very much enjoyed this novel.
I was afraid this might happen. This sequel is full of the things that made the first novel bad- particularly long-winded soliloquies. They, and by extension, this book, are b-o-r-i-n-g. I'm going to have to DNF this one.