Damon Yates is a tech billionaire who created hyperloops for fast travel between cities and is also involved in space travel. He runs an academy to train children to become tech millionaires like him. He’s also made it possible for a paralyzed student to walk again and has cured mental illness in another student. He’s referred to as the Savior for all the good he’s done, however there are some who think he’s up to no good and use his nickname as a curse word.

Our main viewpoint characters are twins Crys and Jade. (The authors of this book also happen to be twin sisters.) Their parents died in the 2040 California earthquake and the twins were taken in by Yates. Crys is devoted to Yates and has been adopted into his family. Jade, on the other hand, has left the academy and is the leader of a group of Exiles opposed to Yates.

Jade has an interesting weakness. Whenever she sees her twin’s face or her own, she feels terror and can’t stop screaming. She thinks it’s a trauma response, but we learn there’s more to it as the novel progresses.

Class struggles are highlighted in this book. The famous Hollywood sign has been changed to Hardihood after the earthquake. Many people are still homeless after the quake and LA is still charred from fires in places. Rich people take tours of the homeless camps like they’re going on safari, but don’t do anything to help the poor. This is part of a series and it does end on a cliffhanger.

The characters didn’t feel fully realized to me. Except for Crys and Jade, most of the characters seemed to have a single character trait. The supporting characters felt flat. When a character dies, it isn’t tragic because we don’t know them that well. It felt like there were more characters than necessary. The depiction of mental illness didn’t feel true to me either. Being schizophrenic is depicted as living like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the person affected knowing that his delusions will randomly return at some point. This book is fun in parts, but overall I’d call it average.