Rating: 2/5 
 ***Minor spoilers & spoilers for book one*** 
 Cara is now on L'eihr and trying to adjust to a life with dull-tasting food, rigorous mandatory physical activity, rude classmates, and a new roommate. Not long into her stay, she learns that the Marines have called her brother back from L'eihr and that soon, she will be the sole human on the planet. Not to mention someone has it out for her, and she has only Aelyx's sister to have her back. Meanwhile, Aelyx is trying to mend the alliance from Earth, where there have already been several attempts on his life. He's forced to go on a tour to convince people that the L'eihr are peaceful and trustworthy. As best as they can while on entirely different planets, Cara and Aelyx are struggling to hold together the alliance so they can make a life on the colony together. 
 It seems that sequels have been disappointing me quite a lot lately. I don't know what it is about second books in trilogies, it just seems that usually I don't enjoy them nearly as much as the first and sometimes third books. A lot of the time, it feels like the second in the series is some awkward filler storyline to build an easy bridge to whatever the author wants to happen in the third book. What I liked about Alienated was that it was a sci-fi novel but also a cute romance story, and I missed the romance aspect a lot. We still have the sci-fi here but that's not entirely what I came for. I wanted more Aelyx and Cara but they're only alone together for all of about 10-15 pages in the whole book. 
 There was also the introduction of a new romance between Syrine and David, who is Aelyx and Syrine's personal bodyguard. While they were cute, their romance and progression to love felt very rushed and it was like they were meant to be a replacement for Cara and Aelyx, so I didn't enjoy them that much. I did, however, like that David was a friend to Aelyx and didn't treat him like crap like some of the other humans did. I also thought Cara's time on L'eihr was pretty boring in spots, and a lot of the time nothing was actually happening. While I liked the introduction to L'eihr and their lifestyle I still found Cara's perspective boring. 
 Overall, I thought this was a disappointing and predictable sequel. It was boring and slow a lot of the time and it wasn't hard to figure out who the "secret" villain was. I liked the book regardless, but I thought Alienated was much better. I will be picking up the third book when it comes out, most likely, but I'll go in with lower expectations than I did with this one. While this book didn't do this for me, I'd definitely recommend that you pick up Alienated if you're a sci-fi/romance fan.