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Illuminae
by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short
I've had this book on my TBR shelf since last October, and I don't know why it took me a year to finally pick it up and read it! I am kind of glad I did though, because after I read the second one I only have to wait a few months for the third and final book in the series to be released.
Most people would say I’m pretty cold, but I think of it more as…private. People are always saying “how are you?” to each other, and I guess I don’t see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone
First off, I would like to say that I really liked the format of the book. It's definitely not for everyone as it's told through interviews, IM's, e-mail exchanges, and a few other formats. I really liked the ones that made you rotate the book and where words made up pictures. So although it is almost a 600 page book, it goes by very fast because of the format. I was able to read it all from Friday night to Sunday morning (and while taking care of a baby in between).
Whatever the don't want me to see, that's where I'm digging. I need to be where the secrets are
Although the book starts off with interviews of Kady and Ezra's experience of the invasion, you slowly start to get a sense of who they are as a person. By the end of the book, you know them pretty well and feel as if their fight is your fight as well. This book has three main obstacles for our MCs to overcome: (1) they are being pursued by Beitech because they want to eliminate any witnesses to the invasion, (2) there is a mutated virus going around that command is being hush hush about, and (3) something is going on with the AI that is in charge of the Alexander (AIDAN). At first all three didn't seem related to each other and I wondered how the authors were going to tie them all in, but thanks to all of the documentation you get a pretty good sense of what is going on. It doesn't take very long for the pieces to start clicking together (with the help of Kady's newly learned hacking skills of course).
What you do when stuff like this happens is you LIVE, you survive it, that's how you honour the ones you lost
Overall, I really enjoyed this book! As someone who doesn't read science fiction that often, I thought this book did an excellent job of living up to the hype that surrounded it when it first came out! I definitely recommend this if you are a sci-fi lover, or even if you just need to branch out and try something new!
I've had this book on my TBR shelf since last October, and I don't know why it took me a year to finally pick it up and read it! I am kind of glad I did though, because after I read the second one I only have to wait a few months for the third and final book in the series to be released.
Most people would say I’m pretty cold, but I think of it more as…private. People are always saying “how are you?” to each other, and I guess I don’t see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone
First off, I would like to say that I really liked the format of the book. It's definitely not for everyone as it's told through interviews, IM's, e-mail exchanges, and a few other formats. I really liked the ones that made you rotate the book and where words made up pictures. So although it is almost a 600 page book, it goes by very fast because of the format. I was able to read it all from Friday night to Sunday morning (and while taking care of a baby in between).
Whatever the don't want me to see, that's where I'm digging. I need to be where the secrets are
Although the book starts off with interviews of Kady and Ezra's experience of the invasion, you slowly start to get a sense of who they are as a person. By the end of the book, you know them pretty well and feel as if their fight is your fight as well. This book has three main obstacles for our MCs to overcome: (1) they are being pursued by Beitech because they want to eliminate any witnesses to the invasion, (2) there is a mutated virus going around that command is being hush hush about, and (3) something is going on with the AI that is in charge of the Alexander (AIDAN). At first all three didn't seem related to each other and I wondered how the authors were going to tie them all in, but thanks to all of the documentation you get a pretty good sense of what is going on. It doesn't take very long for the pieces to start clicking together (with the help of Kady's newly learned hacking skills of course).
What you do when stuff like this happens is you LIVE, you survive it, that's how you honour the ones you lost
Overall, I really enjoyed this book! As someone who doesn't read science fiction that often, I thought this book did an excellent job of living up to the hype that surrounded it when it first came out! I definitely recommend this if you are a sci-fi lover, or even if you just need to branch out and try something new!