This is a pretty nice, albeit depressing, look into life at Thurmond after Ruby leaves it. It took me a few pages to remember who Sam was because for some reason I confused her with Vida. I was never very invested into Ruby's story about Sam so I wasn't overly emotionally attacked to either Sam or Lukas. I definitely liked seeing the Reds come back as 'soldiers' as we had seen would happen in Never Fade and the fact that not all the treatment worked and Lukas was still himself. I also enjoyed the brief connection to Martin, though I wonder how Martin's brother got all the nice genes and Martin left with the shitty ones. All I can hope for now is for Ruby to return to Thurmond and rescue Sam and the others, and somehow use her powers to bring Lukas back. I would definitely be disappointed if they didn't show up at all in In the Afterlight.