***The Starry-Eyed Revue***: jenna fox chronicles

Awhile on the Pile/From the Review Pile is a meme hosted by Stepping Out of the Page every Thursday but was also inspired by Rachel at My Reading Pile/Fiktshun. The aim of this meme is to showcase books that you've received for review -- or any book that you own and really want to read/review -- but haven't yet got around to reading in order to give the book some extra publicity.

Here's the book I chose to give some extra love this week:

Title: The Fox Inheritance
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Series: Jenna Fox Chronicles #2
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication Date: August 30, 2011
Source: ARC & audiobook from publisher

Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries.

Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead.

Everyone except Jenna Fox.

Sometimes, you get sent review copies that you didn't request, and sometimes those ARCs are sequels or later books in a series that you haven't yet started. That's the case with The Fox Inheritance. I had always planned to read The Adoration of Jenna Fox, but with all the other books on my plate, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. And then the publisher of the audiobooks contacted me to offer a copy of The Fox Inheritance for review. I explained that I would need to either read or listen to the first book before accepting the review copy, but they still ended up sending it. I had hoped that it would arrive with the first book on audio, but no such luck.

Oh, well. I will get to it eventually, especially now that a third book is slated for release in 2013. Maybe this will be another one of those that I wait until the series is complete before I start it.

Have you read this series? If so, what are your thoughts?