Rating: 3.5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers, spoilers for book 1*** 
 A Million Suns begins shortly after Elder takes control of the ship after Eldest's death. He took the citizens off Phydus and is fighting for control. The only this is, he doesn't know how to control and be a leader when the people have individual thought and are looking to make decisions of their own, including choosing their own leader. Things are getting out of hand, and the people don't look up to Elder enough to listen to him. Amy is missing her parents more and more - if the ship is going to take so long to land, why can't she wake them? Things are becoming more unsafe for her too. Now that everyone can think for themselves, they're realizing the problems only really began when the "freak" showed up. 
 I spent the majority of this book thinking that I would end up rating it 3 stars. It just wasn't doing it for me. The ending was really good, which was the reason I raised my rating to 3.5. Even so, I enjoyed the first book more for several reasons. 
 First, I thought the characters were less annoying in the first book. A lot of people had issues with the characters in the first book, but I didn't notice so much. Sure, Amy was quite bland, but I thought Elder was okay. In this book, it was the complete opposite. Elder was frustrating me to no end, and even though he was born to be the leader of the ship, he was no leader. He had no real plan and seemed to think that the people would listen to him just because he was supposed to be in charge. Amy's point of view was actually more exciting than his, which may be hard to believe. 
 Secondly, I felt interest throughout the first book. I thought there was a steady pace, but in this book, the pace was all over the place. There were times when there was a whole lot of nothing, and then a bunch of stuff would happen all at once, and then we'd go back to nothing. 
 Also, Amy and Elder get a bit closer in this book, but their romance seems so strained to me. It's a romance of convenience and I hate feeling that they're only together because Amy has no other choice because everyone else hates her. I wish they would've just stayed friends, because they just don't have any chemistry whatsoever. 
 Despite these things, A Million Suns did have some strong points. We got to learn more about the ship and its history thanks to clues left for Amy by Orion. There were some introductions of new characters who I had a love/hate relationship with. And although I expected one bit of the ending, it was still really good. 
 Overall, I still think this is a strong sci-fi series and I'll definitely be buying the last book in the trilogy at some point. If you read the first book and enjoyed it, I'd recommend you read this one since you get to learn some more stuff and the ending is great.