Advanced Reader Copy: Expected Publish Date: 15 Oct 2013 
 Not very long ago, I gave Alexandra Bracken's "The Darkest Minds" a positive review, so when I was offered an advanced reader's copy for the sequel, I took the offer up gladly. Sequels can be bitter-sweet ... so often they give you more of what you want, but spend a lot of time setting up for a third instalment. But I can't stand an unfinished story, so I invariably dive into a sequel with guns blazing. 
 Never Fade is better than most, but not as awesome as some. It's relatively self contained, which will appeal, and it isn't merely filler and set-up for the third novel. There's meat on this bone yet. The writing and dialogue itself is still well done, and the situations never so outlandish that the suspension-of-belief is broken. 
 We jump straight into the action, with frenetic and chaotic activity which simply doesn't let up. Packed to the brim with double crosses and with every motive in question, there's never a moment of security. Which is a question we all find ourselves struggling with: who to trust when nothing is as it appears to be. 
 Overall, this is above par for sequels, and those who enjoyed the first in the series will not be disappointed in anything but the wait for release day. 
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