Review Of Illuminae By Amie Kaufman And Jay Kristoff

This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.

The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.

But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.

BRIEFING NOTE: Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.

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First of all I would like to say how much I hate the sci-fi genre. I have DNFed perfectly good books simply because they're sci-fi. That said, I loved this book.

The thing that got, and kept, me reading was the writing style. It is written not in book form, but in the form of a file collection of emails, texts, files, etc.

This is not to say the story is not also great. In the beginning, nothing really goes on in the story, but that changes. Kady, with the help of others, starts hacking into the ships' files to uncover the truth about why one of the ships blew up, the AI is turned off, and the comms are down.The pace picks up really quickly and then just keeps gathering speed until the very end.

I read the book without reading the description above, and can I just say, the description does not do it justice. It does describe it well, summing it up and it didn't make anything up, like some others do, but it doesn't make it sound as epic as it is. The description makes it seem kind of cheesy (" only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again."), but it really isn't. And, at least in my opinion, the plot wasn't too convenient either.

This book was so good, and I definately recommend it, even if you don't like sci-fi.