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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is a re-read for me, I still really enjoyed it. This time however, I'm knocking down a star for the sexism en fatphobia. Wtf guys?
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
So. This book.
Literally just finished it. I've never had a book break my heart and patch it back up quite as perfectly as this one.
Quite brilliantly, everything I want in a book = survival, space, romance, BAMF!female lead.
Kady, you awesome.
Literally just finished it. I've never had a book break my heart and patch it back up quite as perfectly as this one.
Quite brilliantly, everything I want in a book = survival, space, romance, BAMF!female lead.
Kady, you awesome.
A MILLION STARS FOR THIS BOOK!!!!! Wow! This book is definitely one of my 2017 favorites ❤️
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The best straight sci-fi I've read in a long time, Illuminae explodes like a star in your hands. If the main characters weren't teenagers, it would even by a YA novel. But their informality and aversion to authority will make you glad it is.
The entire story is told through "records" - transcripts of online messages and real-life conversations, security footage, and both official and unofficial written documentation. Readers are seeing what's left after the events of the book - what's been gathered to explain what has already occurred. But since we don't know the end, we are along for the light-speed ride.
Kady and Ezra, along with the other characters, are very funny. They're rude, too, and honest and scared. Every interaction is glimpsed at its most casual and intimate; the reader is a fly in the datastream, inside their heads and relationships in a way they'd never allow as narrators. It gives Illuminae another, deeper level of extraordinary storytelling.
Illuminae is a brilliant story, even more brilliantly told.
The entire story is told through "records" - transcripts of online messages and real-life conversations, security footage, and both official and unofficial written documentation. Readers are seeing what's left after the events of the book - what's been gathered to explain what has already occurred. But since we don't know the end, we are along for the light-speed ride.
Kady and Ezra, along with the other characters, are very funny. They're rude, too, and honest and scared. Every interaction is glimpsed at its most casual and intimate; the reader is a fly in the datastream, inside their heads and relationships in a way they'd never allow as narrators. It gives Illuminae another, deeper level of extraordinary storytelling.
Illuminae is a brilliant story, even more brilliantly told.
Now I can see why this had high marks. story: Amazing. I thought I would have a hard time following the story, but pleasently surprise how easy it all came together
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No