Outside In starts weeks after the end of Inside Out (I'm not even going to pretend to know the exact amount of time, I find the whole time thing in this book utterly confusing; I needed a calculator to figure out how tall Trella was when she gave her height in meters.). The Travas are all incarcerated, the Pop Cops are no more, a Committee of 19 people representing various families and sections where the scrubs work has been created and work is underway on completing additional levels for the people Inside to live. The problem is, the Committee can't seem to agree on anything important and there's basically been a scrub work stoppage because the Uppers haven't lifted a hand to help them with the tasks that were formerly all scrub jobs. 
 To make matters worse, an explosion rocks the ship, knocking out the transmission that allows it to move and be guided. Rumors begin to swirl about Outsiders trying to gain access to Inside and Trella, who becomes disenchanted with all of the meetings and arguing, distances herself from the Committee and also from Riley. Meanwhile, there are more incidents that get in the way of the Insiders getting things back to some semblance of normal and no one knows who's trustworthy. 
 Dr. Lamont is in it more and I liked that, as well as the fact that Trella and her relationship moved along some and slowly changed. I do wish Riley had been in it more and I thought Trella was a bit too bitchy with him and not as understanding of what he was trying to accomplish as she should have been. There were a couple of other characters, like Jacy, that were in it more and I did like some of the secondary characters expanded roles in this book. 
 There were quite a few twists and some surprises, but I thought the big problem in this book was a bit forced like, all of the sudden there's this big obstacle and no one knew about it and it came out of nowhere. Yes, I see why and how it would come out of nowhere, but after the first book I think the problems or baddies or whatever for book two should've been more related to what happened in the first book. I didn't realize I would be, but I was still really pissed about the fact that Cog had died and he'd died like a punk, in my opinion. Overall, I did like this book, I was just a little disappointed by it and liked the first one better. Still, if you read Inside Out and liked it I'd recommend reading this one.