My preliminary review of this series is.............blahk (I just made that word up). The first book in the series is pretty good. Love the twists and turns albeit some are a little fantastical but the scientific references and descriptions are great. Overall it was a good read.
Then I started on the 2nd book and found myself getting frustrated with the BS games that men and women play. Hiding information from each other because they don't want to stress the other person out. really? The world is ending FFS. I doubt there's anything that can top that in the stress department. My second major issue was with the AI. Did they learn nothing at the end of the last book about how the AI could be compromised. It made no sense to me how they could overlook the obvious and not correct that major defect. At that point I lost interest and put the book down. Maybe I'll pick it back up when the world is coming to an end.