While this wasn't my favorite book in the series, I did enjoy it more than Starsight . Luckily, Spensa is one of the few characters that I can handle monologues from.

"'Chet,' I said, 'you've always been afraid of the Path of Elders. Why?'
'I worry that if I walk it,' he said, 'I'll stop being myself.'
'Why?'
'Because every path we walk changes us, Spensa,' he answered"(323).