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A review by enchantedfiction
Gemina by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
5.0
Here we go with Gemina continuing the mind blow from Illuminae. The concept of how the story is moved forward with all new characters, an all new setting, and be able to make me momentarily forget about Kady Grant and Ezra Mason was amazing. It's also sometimes hard to take things for their face value with these stories, which is something I thoroughly enjoy. I love when things happen that I didn't anticipate or guess was going to happen, and Kaufman and Kristoff are masters. *bows down*
Gemina opens with Leanne Frobisher, the Beitech big wig who has a huge hand in the Kerenza attack that happened in Illuminae, on trial for all of the shit that went down. The tribunal are trying to tie Beitech, and Frobisher herself, to what also happened at the Heimdall station during the time that the epicness of Illuminae happened. We are introduced to Hanna Donnelly, the Commander's daughter, her boyfriend, Jackson Merrick, and a cousin duo from a mafia family, Nik Malikov and Ella Malikova. When a SpecOps team from Beitech infiltrate Heimdall in order to stop the survivors aboard the Hypatia from making it through the wormhole, it seems as if it is up to Hanna, Nik, and Ella to get everyone out alive. And I'd be lying if I didn't say a lot of crazy shit went down.
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff have seriously thought everything through in Gemina like they did in Illuminae, and holy crap my head was spinning by the end of it all. (not in an exorcist kind of way) These two definitely did their scientific research when writing these books, because I never saw the inter-dimensional part coming into play until it happened. I loved the subtle hints to what could be coming, like the dimension B Nik still having the corsage, and Hypatia having conversations with both Nik and Hanna when we were lead to believe Nik was dead. When Nik died I refused to believe it, that there was some way he would come back, but that's how I feel about most characters that die in books. I just refuse to believe it. And the report from Jackson, aka Samuel, aka Rapier (:0) to Frobisher, I had a hard time believing because I didn't find him truly ruthless enough to kill three people in cold blood. I did get chills during that part though, but still refused to believe it.
I am excited and scared to read Obsidio now. No telling what kind of mind f*#ks could be coming, but it should be an exciting ride.
Gemina opens with Leanne Frobisher, the Beitech big wig who has a huge hand in the Kerenza attack that happened in Illuminae, on trial for all of the shit that went down. The tribunal are trying to tie Beitech, and Frobisher herself, to what also happened at the Heimdall station during the time that the epicness of Illuminae happened. We are introduced to Hanna Donnelly, the Commander's daughter, her boyfriend, Jackson Merrick, and a cousin duo from a mafia family, Nik Malikov and Ella Malikova. When a SpecOps team from Beitech infiltrate Heimdall in order to stop the survivors aboard the Hypatia from making it through the wormhole, it seems as if it is up to Hanna, Nik, and Ella to get everyone out alive. And I'd be lying if I didn't say a lot of crazy shit went down.
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff have seriously thought everything through in Gemina like they did in Illuminae, and holy crap my head was spinning by the end of it all. (not in an exorcist kind of way) These two definitely did their scientific research when writing these books, because I never saw the inter-dimensional part coming into play until it happened. I loved the subtle hints to what could be coming, like the dimension B Nik still having the corsage, and Hypatia having conversations with both Nik and Hanna when we were lead to believe Nik was dead. When Nik died I refused to believe it, that there was some way he would come back, but that's how I feel about most characters that die in books. I just refuse to believe it. And the report from Jackson, aka Samuel, aka Rapier (:0) to Frobisher, I had a hard time believing because I didn't find him truly ruthless enough to kill three people in cold blood. I did get chills during that part though, but still refused to believe it.
I am excited and scared to read Obsidio now. No telling what kind of mind f*#ks could be coming, but it should be an exciting ride.