Review: Back to square one.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2014
I gave this part of the book 4 stars, because it got a bit pedantic in the middle about explaining why the colonization of the new planet wasn't working. The planners tried to start with big cities instead of building up from smaller farming communities.  I still would highly recommend this book, however, because it has vital information to help explain the unanswered questions from the previous book and to further cement the relationships between the main characters.It's really hard not to give away all of what happened in the story to tell about this book. I'll just say that Jed finds himself back in the spaceship, waking up to the announcement to report to Medical before departing the area. He is transported to the Amish Zone and meets his old friend. He learns how the new rules here are pretty much like they were in his old Amish settlement and is happy about that. However, he hears explosions over the wall that surrounds the Amish Zone and asks about them. People just say it's the Englischers fighting each other like they always do, that they like to fight. Jed finds himself trying to defend them by saying maybe they have a reason to fight. He also has flashes of memory of a woman smiling or saying something to him briefly. He doesn't know who she is, but he has warm feelings  for her. He talks his friend into going to the top of the wall to look at the Englischer's colony on this world. What they see there changes everyone's future.