After REALLY enjoying "Glenraven" for its tightly woven story, great characters, and humor, I was excited at the prospect of reading "In the Rift." I was disappointed that the sequel was not as good as the first book. Where have I heard that before? It seemed like the story was always on the verge of pulling me in, but then the plot would take an uninteresting twist, or some incident that could have been explored and explained just got a light skimming. Kind of frustrating. On the bright side, "In the Rift" does succeed in moving the story forward through a new set of interesting characters, and points toward a third story. "In the Rift" also gives a glimpse of what has happened to two of the central characters from the first book. All in all, a good read, but not a great one like its predecessor.