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Illuminae by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

115 reviews

unicorngirl's review

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-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

4.75

Wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Gun violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Suicide, War, and Murder

Minor: Cursing

mothreadsbookssometimes's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Illuminae was a fantastic book and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. I first read the Aurora Cycle trilogy, and I loved it so much that I had to read the rest of Kristoff’s and Kaufman’s works. And boy, am I having a time!
Illuminae is a very YA-friendly sci-fi mystery/thriller (I know it’s not tagged as a thriller, but it is) with minimal swearing (“censored on reports”), and only vague references to sex (jokes about “your sister” and references to acts done prior to the events of the story). 
Take it from someone who normally hates thrillers, this book is good. Admittedly, there’s a lot of death and blood (only a few disturbingly gory parts, though), so do keep that in mind, but I didn’t find it too uncomfortable and I’m normally a very squeamish person. 
Can’t wait for the next book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm

I know it’s a lot of content warnings, so do proceed with caution. I’m not very good with blood/gore, but I only had a couple small parts (see below) that made me uncomfortable. There’s a lot of death, but it’s not vividly gory until about 45% (I think) into the book

when they enter the quarantine bay and 70% through

when the remaining Alexander survivors escape the ship

. For the most part, they just say “there’s blood/dead bodies/screams in the distance” but they don’t go into great detail with every mention of violence.

eloise__'s review

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I like the formatting of it in text chats and transcripts of surveillance footage.

The bit about AIDAN pretending to be Ezra was a bit confusing and I do kinda wish the audience knew about it before Kady found out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, War, Death, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Colonisation, Alcohol, and Child abuse

booksngrannies's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Death, and Gore

camille570912's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

It is very hard to read digitally. Highly recommend hard copy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Gun violence, and War

childoflight's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Violence, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death of parent, Police brutality, Gun violence, Confinement, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

hannahbenje's review

I was borrowing it, and ran out of time. I will definitely buy my own copy later to finish it!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Violence

marsh_mall0w's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Police brutality, Torture, Vomit, and Colonisation

Minor: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Fire/Fire injury

moonykaden's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Death, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Vomit

edie_maeve's review

dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

This book.
I was not expecting this.
The second I opened it, I was transfixed.
I know that if you look at most of my other reviews with written parts are very positive, but this book really hit the spot.
The relationships and the actions of the characters, epic, and the plot is just phenomenal. There are a couple things I dislike, hence the 4.5 instead of 5 star rating, but the story was well told through this format.
Kristoff and Kaufman are an amazing duo, and their other series, The Aurora Cycle/Aurora Rising series is beautiful as well, and I highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Death of parent