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4.45 AVERAGE
4.45 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAS! Illuminae was amazing. This book was also fucking amazing. It was soooooooo good. I knew it was going to be great because Illuminae was just so fucking good! I read it when it came out, but apparently never reviewed it. BUT OMG GET IT BOTH BOOKS THEY ARE AMAZING. My non-reading husband even read and loved both books. AIDAN is back! YAY! AM I NOT MERCIFUL!? You are AIDAN, you absolutely are. AIDAN is the best thing about Illuminae, OBVI my favorite character. ANYWAYS. This book is a great sequel. It has everything you could want in a sequel including new equally great characters, old characters that you already loved, plot twists. stabby deaths. EPIC. New characters Hanna and Nik. Hanna is a secret bad ass, when she seems like a space princess. And Nik. SWOON. I LOVED HIM! Full of snarky comments and jokes. He's the best. So the characters are all fucking GREAT. What about the plot? Well it is very similar to the first book in that you have two teens that you are rooting for who are trying to save everyone they can, but mostly each other. Murders and more murders, and then oh yah, murders. YAAAAAAAAAAS. I can't wait for book 3!!!!!!!!!!!
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Slow to start but once it picked up it got very interesting
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The Illuminae Files continues in this sequel and continues to hit it out of the park. Once again, there is nothing I don’t like about this story.
The style hasn’t changed from the first book, meaning our story is told through emails and chat logs and transcriptions of video footage and it is heart breaking and exciting and dramatic and I could have sat up and read this book in one sitting if I had had the time.
And the book is still beautiful outside of the book jacket too.
Now, where we left off in book one, the science vessel Hypatia is running for it’s life full of refugees from the Kerenza sector to the jump station Hemdall after being attacked by the warship Alexander. They have been sending out distress calls to warn Hemdall that they’re coming and trouble was following them …
… and that’s where our story picks up aboard the Hemdall.
Full review (with possible minor spoilers) available at: https://jaystareads.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/gemina/
The style hasn’t changed from the first book, meaning our story is told through emails and chat logs and transcriptions of video footage and it is heart breaking and exciting and dramatic and I could have sat up and read this book in one sitting if I had had the time.
And the book is still beautiful outside of the book jacket too.
Now, where we left off in book one, the science vessel Hypatia is running for it’s life full of refugees from the Kerenza sector to the jump station Hemdall after being attacked by the warship Alexander. They have been sending out distress calls to warn Hemdall that they’re coming and trouble was following them …
… and that’s where our story picks up aboard the Hemdall.
Full review (with possible minor spoilers) available at: https://jaystareads.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/gemina/
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Murder
Moderate: Death of parent
adventurous
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emotional
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
I absolutely loved this book! I read the physical copy of Illuminae and after hearing how everyone loved the audiobooks I definitely wanted to check it out with Gemina! The audiobook was just FANTASTIC. That being said, I definitely wanted to both listen and see the awesome pages at the same time ahaha so I guess for obsidian, I'll have to listen and read at the same time LOL.
I loved how we got to follow different characters but still had appearances of characters from book 1. Things went south pretty quick in this book and there was so much action and so many things going on! Normally sci-fi's that take place on one ship aren't my favourite just because I get bored with the story being confined like that but this series absolutely does NOT have that issue. I love it!
Content warnings: Death (including of a parent), violence (including gun violence), drug use, grief.
I loved how we got to follow different characters but still had appearances of characters from book 1. Things went south pretty quick in this book and there was so much action and so many things going on! Normally sci-fi's that take place on one ship aren't my favourite just because I get bored with the story being confined like that but this series absolutely does NOT have that issue. I love it!
Content warnings: Death (including of a parent), violence (including gun violence), drug use, grief.