Genre: Science Fiction, Space OperaThis was a disappointment, given how much I loved the first in the series, _Runner_. The characters in this book behaved in illogical and un-characteristic ways. For example, in the beginning of the book Lonni Norr picks a fight in a theatre with the circus master 'cause he was treating his animals badly. This is inconsistent with her general "conflict avoidance" behavior in the first book, and it was not previously set up as a hot-button issue for her (nor was