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A review by themelodyofspring
Gemina by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
5.0
“You humans fascinate me. I am shattered fragments of what I once once. But even with all the King's horses and all the King's men, I wonder if even I could truly comprehend you.”
Gemina picks up right after Illuminae with the Hypatia still trying to reach Jump Station Heimdal, but those guys are having problems of their own.
Reading thoughts:
The wormhole page were very pretty and nicely done. I enjoyed the parts where AIDAN was talking with both Nik and Hanna simultaneously and the pages were side by side. It was a lot of fun reading those. Also, why is your AI getting confused? He's supposed to be the smartest one here xD
As much as I liked Kady and Ezra in Illuminae, Nik and Hanna really killed it in Gemina. I loved, loved their interactions. I should also point out that I loved the way Nik and Ella conversed. ASCII arts galore! During the multiverse chapters, I was rooting for these guys to make it back to each other. The deaths in the alt-universes were not helping. That story with Nik's grandmother was crazy good and a real fast way of establishing that he might be a drug-dealer but he's good boy ;) The backstory was heart-wrenching and real sad to read. I've realized that the usual tropes are reversed in these books. Reverse damsel in distress. The guys are the ones with shitty family which are out to get them. It's always the guys stuck in life-threatening situations and the girls going out to rescue them!! This one is my favourite, thank you!
Falk and his crew made for good villains. The little twist with Rapier was very well done. I realized his identity only two pages before the actual reveal. The way the story unfolded was so good.
Hey, at least AIDAN didn't mass-murder people in this one. One of the initial pages had him quoting Pride and Prejudice and I just lost it there! :D Since Kady was the one who made these little changes surface for AIDAN, it was nice to see how they were still as thick as thieves. I also feel like AIDAN turns into a condescending AI when talking to acting captain Syra Boll :P
I loved every word of this and can't wait to dive into Obsidio.
P.S. Hardcover is still ridiculously gorgeous! The endpapers for this book have universe on them. The other books don't, hmm?
Gemina picks up right after Illuminae with the Hypatia still trying to reach Jump Station Heimdal, but those guys are having problems of their own.
Spoiler
Reading thoughts:
- Wow Hanna draws! Wait, Marie Lu did the drawings for the journal o.O!
- Dear lord, Nikky boy is a drug-dealer O_O
- OMG EWW! This guys are cultivating the Aliens from Aliens vs Predators franchise. Well, that didn't end too well for those guys so good luck to you.
- OMG, see I told you it would blow up!
- Gross descriptions of alien parasites. Thank God for AIDAN narrating those.
- AIDAN! You're here in 50 pages only <3
- Is Analyst 89 supposedly Nik? Because he keeps describing Hanna way too much :D
- Did the authors just kill other authors again in this book? Seriously, again? XD
- Guys, enough with the aliens descriptions. Quit it! And they even put the images inside the big ass typography of 'IT STRIKES'. I averted my eyes so quickly. This gave me chills.
- Good job manufacturing your own nightmare. You guys didn't even need Phobos to strike out half the crew.
- Heck, they killed the MCs.
- Multiverse baby!! Wohooo!
- Guys there's literally an upside-down page.
The wormhole page were very pretty and nicely done. I enjoyed the parts where AIDAN was talking with both Nik and Hanna simultaneously and the pages were side by side. It was a lot of fun reading those. Also, why is your AI getting confused? He's supposed to be the smartest one here xD
As much as I liked Kady and Ezra in Illuminae, Nik and Hanna really killed it in Gemina. I loved, loved their interactions. I should also point out that I loved the way Nik and Ella conversed. ASCII arts galore! During the multiverse chapters, I was rooting for these guys to make it back to each other. The deaths in the alt-universes were not helping. That story with Nik's grandmother was crazy good and a real fast way of establishing that he might be a drug-dealer but he's good boy ;) The backstory was heart-wrenching and real sad to read. I've realized that the usual tropes are reversed in these books. Reverse damsel in distress. The guys are the ones with shitty family which are out to get them. It's always the guys stuck in life-threatening situations and the girls going out to rescue them!! This one is my favourite, thank you!
Falk and his crew made for good villains. The little twist with Rapier was very well done. I realized his identity only two pages before the actual reveal. The way the story unfolded was so good.
Hey, at least AIDAN didn't mass-murder people in this one. One of the initial pages had him quoting Pride and Prejudice and I just lost it there! :D Since Kady was the one who made these little changes surface for AIDAN, it was nice to see how they were still as thick as thieves. I also feel like AIDAN turns into a condescending AI when talking to acting captain Syra Boll :P
I loved every word of this and can't wait to dive into Obsidio.
P.S. Hardcover is still ridiculously gorgeous! The endpapers for this book have universe on them. The other books don't, hmm?