This audiobook review was first posted on http://www.rubysreads.com. 
 Narrator Review: 
 Narrator Matthew Brown captures Locke perfectly, portraying his early, childlike mentality, his bewilderment over a familiar and unfamiliar world, and his ultimate disillusionment, pain and personal loss. He's a bit less skillful with female characters, but I always have a problem with opposite gender character portrayals in audiobooks. All in all, Brown is a solid narrator. 
 Book Review: 
 A lot of people loved The Adoration of Jenna Fox. And that meant they were uncertain about The Fox Inheritance. That's always the way. We don't want writers to mess with the perfection of the books that we adore. (Heh.) I, however, was excited because I thought this book would be focusing on Locke and Kara instead of swinging back around to Jenna. For me, Jenna's story was complete. I wanted to revisit the Jenna Fox world, not necessarily the characters. I was both wrong and right about this--and I have mixed feelings as a result. 
 The Fox Inheritance begins with Locke and Kara. They've been "awake" for about a year, after having spent 260 years in the little black boxes that contained their minds. If you read the first book, you know that Jenna thought she'd destroyed these boxes--and she did. But not before someone had copies made. You'll also remember that Jenna was traumatized by her memories of the black box--and she didn't spend 260 years in one, like Locke and Kara. 
 Locke, in his childlike fashion, accepts the fancy house they live in, and whatever the doctor tells him, and wishes that Cara would be less upset about their situation. He naively hopes that his love will keep her from the scary edge she's always dancing on, but he's not really interested in challenging the status quo. Until, that is, he discovers their real purpose--they serve as floor models for rich people who plan to live past their deaths. Theirs may be a plush prison, but it's a prison nonetheless. 
 When the Locke finds Dr. Gatsborough sprawled on the floor of his office in a pool of his own blood, he and Cara make a run for it. While they begin their journey together, they're ultimately separated when they're nearly recaptured. Thus begins a race across the country. Locke knows there's only one place Cara would go: to California to find Jenna. And not so she can give her a big hug and a kiss. 
 Locke's journey is one of self-discovery, and of long-delayed coming of age. When he finally meets Jenna again, it's simultaneously explosive and anticlimactic. It was also the point of the novel where I began to have mixed feelings. Up until then, I was intrigued by Locke's internal dilemmas--he's a man-made human and he's not sure how he stacks up against man-made bots. Just how different (if at all) is he? Does he have a soul any more than his new bot-friend, Dot, does? Until this point, The Fox Inheritance was Locke's story; Locke's coming-of-age. Then, as soon as Locke meets up with Jenna, everything becomes about her. Ironic, considering the theme of the first novel. Which makes me wonder--is that the "Fox Inheritance"? Making everything about Jenna? Seems likely. 
 So, while I appreciated the world-building, and Locke's story, I felt I could have done without more of Jenna. I was thinking the inheritance was going to be more amorphous and philosophical--instead, it turned out to be more of the same. I felt for Kara--everything does seem to be about Jenna. In particular, Locke's story became an extension of Jenna's. I kind of wish he'd never met her again. 
 If there's a third book--and there is speculation that there might be--I'm hoping it gives us some distance from Jenna. As I said, her story was complete for me at the end of the first book. Pearson certainly opened things up for all kinds of possibilities. My mind is whirring with them. Plus, I'm still not certain what to think about the fact that Locke's mind was a copy of a copy. It was one of those issues that was lost when Jenna enters the story. So, please, Ms. Pearson, tell me you're not done with this world? 
 4 Points: 
 I would make dinner for this book.