Meta-Rise picks up right where Bot Wars, book one, left off.  Trout St. Kroix has found his long lost father and brother and has joined their team.  Trout’s dad is now the leader of the revolution; he’s half human and half robot and can see both sides of the issue.   This story is science fiction and futuristic in that robots do most of the heavy work humans used to do.  They even have human emotions.  But there is a division of alliances: one side is for making them unfeeling, as they were to begin with, and the other side to give them rights, as humans do.  What started as a disagreement and now evolved into an all out war, and as with any war, there are splinter groups trying to become leaders.  Mr. St. Kroix, the leader, has to watch his back as others try to jockey into position to take over.  Now it’s a question of who you can trust on your side.  The outline for this war story could take place anytime, anywhere.  Kade has chosen the future and as such uses technology that is believable.  Again, as with the first book, action is fast-paced and the characters are interesting, however, too much robot slang for my taste.  I wouldn’t mind some new, creative vocabulary introduced instead.