A review by sheadel
Obsidio by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

5.0

"I'll tell you this, chum. The folks on Kerenza, the crews of the Hypatia, the Alexander, Heimdall, the Mao––they saw it all. They faced down the Phobos plague, a murderous AI, attacking dreadnoughts, collapsing holes in spacetime and psychotropic alien beasties that want to suck your soul out through your face.
Who knew their greatest threat would be figuring out who's on the right and wrong side of an argument about their fate?
Who knew the worst they'd face would be at the hands of other people?
Because as I write up all this footage, the one thing getting clearer and clearer is that just about everyone I see is doing the best they can with what they have."

I enjoyed this so, so damn much, and I'm very sad to see this series go. I've just been consistently blown away by the creativity and sheer storytelling prowess that's gone into these books. Obsidio was no different.

That being said, I think my favorite might be Gemina, but Obsidio was so much fun to read. I loved seeing our squad of unlikely heroes come together to finish this

Spoiler

and all live, thank God--it got a little hairy for a moment there

and I ADORED the ending. Obsidio wasn't quite as intense as Gemina, but the last hundred pages or so ramped up so quickly that I almost didn't notice I was profoundly freaking out. (Fun fact: I was stuck on an Amtrak train that was sitting outside of the station for an hour because the station operator wasn't letting us in when I hit the last portion of this book. I had to stop reading because I was close to hyperventilating and I didn't want the conductor to think I was having a panic attack like the lady sitting behind me who was losing her mind over the fact that she was going to miss her connecting train... Good times.)

I'm beyond excited to see what these two authors go on to do next... If they can create a character as complex and horrifying and sympathetic as AIDAN, who isn't even a real human being, then I believe they can do pretty much anything. I'm excited to see what that will be...

Pre-review 12/7/17:
I've just come from Gemina (which has left me traumatized and beyond shook) and I need Obsidio now so desperately. It feels like there's a piece of me I never knew I needed enclosed within Obsidio's pages, but I can't get to it until March which is a damn long time away and I may die before that time comes.

I just want to thank Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff for destroying my life.