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A review by ayah_reads
Illuminae by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
3.0
It's funny how when this was released in 2015 AI was more of a near future thing and viruses hadn't reached a global pandemic level in so long. Makes reading this in 2024 an interesting and rather too relevant time.
I audiobooked and read along with this so I got the full immersion of how this story is written. It's very impressive to have a written a story like this and its been a while since I've read a novel in this type of format so it was cool to get to do so.
But while the format is cool and I've read novels in letters/emails/texts before, I unfortunately couldn't get really attached to the characters or invested in them deeply. I liked Kady and Ezra but it did feel like they gravitated to each other cos their world had ended and they both lost loved ones, which is obviously very fair, but it felt like a relationship based on survival so it was also hard to root so much for them.
I did really like several of the plot twists towards the end, it definitely had me shook.
All in all, it was good to have read this but I don't see myself continuing on with it. Reading this confirmed I'm not a massive sci-fi person and if I am reading a sci-fi book then I need to deeply care for the characters and have something to ground the story in.
I audiobooked and read along with this so I got the full immersion of how this story is written. It's very impressive to have a written a story like this and its been a while since I've read a novel in this type of format so it was cool to get to do so.
But while the format is cool and I've read novels in letters/emails/texts before, I unfortunately couldn't get really attached to the characters or invested in them deeply. I liked Kady and Ezra but it did feel like they gravitated to each other cos their world had ended and they both lost loved ones, which is obviously very fair, but it felt like a relationship based on survival so it was also hard to root so much for them.
I did really like several of the plot twists towards the end, it definitely had me shook.
All in all, it was good to have read this but I don't see myself continuing on with it. Reading this confirmed I'm not a massive sci-fi person and if I am reading a sci-fi book then I need to deeply care for the characters and have something to ground the story in.