This is one of those books that I anticipate handing off to a bunch of semi-reluctant readers. I am disappointed that I did not read it sooner because its theme of information vs. safety would have fit in perfectly with the other sci-fi/fantasy books I chose for summer reading. There's always next summer, I guess. 
 Neal Shusterman crafts an incredible world with details that are slowly unraveled over the course of the book. Probably more than anything else, my desire to learn more about how this world worked was what kept me reading. 
 However, I wouldn't say this is a page-turner; it's a slow build with a myriad of factors in play. Honestly, if this would be adapted for the screen, it would be easy to divide this book alone into three installments and there would be no lack of material for an entire season of television. I would totally watch either one, though I think it would be incredibly challenging to depict the power of the Thunderhead in a way that makes sense to the viewer because it was even occasionally challenging to me as a reader to determine its role. 
 Our two main protagonists are kind of meh, but their adult mentors (Faraday and Curie) are fire (not literally). They are complex and deeply flawed, yet I found myself admiring them. I thought it was incredibly cool how Shusterman found ways to make their methods so different from each other but admirable all the same. Goddard is kind of clearly a bad guy, but it is also clear that the greater antagonist has yet to be revealed. And I will definitely be checking in on those later installments to determine exactly what that is.