Rating: 2.5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers & book 1-2 spoilers*** 
 Juliette may have been shot, but she hasn't been taken down. Warner saved her life, and she's now staying on a base with him. She learns that Warner isn't the man she thought he was, and he is able to explain his actions to her. However, Juliette worries for her friends from Omega Point. She wants to fight the Reestablishment and take down Anderson, and Warner is willing to help her do it. She recruits the survivors of the Omega Point attack, Adam, Kenji, and Winston among others. There are only nine of them left. Eight of them are willing to fight - but Adam doesn't trust any of this. He hates that Juliette trusts Warner after everything he's done, and won't accept that Juliette and Warner have changed. Juliette must find a way to execute her plan to take down Anderson while dealing with the fact that Adam's newfound hatred of her may affect the entire team. 
 It's been a very long time since I read the second book in this series, so the only things I know are what I read in summaries I found online. So I was going into this without previous judgement. I knew I enjoyed the last two books, but unfortunately this one's story didn't impress me that much. Regardless of the fact that the plot was pretty meh in my opinion, I still love Mafi's writing. It's lyrical and poetic in a way that doesn't overdo it, with a lot of metaphors but not an overpowering amount of them. If only so much of the book didn't annoy me, otherwise it would be a higher rating for sure. 
 I didn't really think this was a book about defeating the Reestablishment, really. It was a book about Juliette's love life and all the drama and angst of it. Literally 330 pages or so of the book weren't filled with any action, they were filled with planning and training, but mostly romance. So much of it was Juliette brooding about not knowing how love was supposed to feel like and how she didn't love Adam for real. She's worried because she doesn't know how she feels for Warner and then when she goes for Warner he shuts down. It was so, so much teenage angst for far too long. What disappointed me was that so much time was spent focusing on her romantic life that we only got about 30-40 pages or so of actual action, maybe even less than that. I was so exciting for the action because it would mean we could stop focusing on her love life, but that wasn't that great either. It felt very rushed and ended quite abruptly. (view spoiler)[ I also didn't find it very realistic that nobody died at the end. (hide spoiler)] 
 Overall, this was easy to read but I didn't find the plot very enjoyable. I would've rated it much less if I didn't enjoy Mafi's writing so much because it made reading this feel very fluid, easy, and quick. If you're interested in Juliette's love life, you'd probably enjoy this a lot more than me, but the angsty love triangle ruined it for me. Also, if you like Adam, prepare to have your heart broken because he is so different in this book and almost never comes across as kind. If you're looking to read this and be done with the series, go for it, but be prepared to spend a lot of time reading about Juliette's angst.