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Illuminae
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Illuminae is a 2015 young adult space opera epistolary novel written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. This is the first novel of the series The Illuminae Files. The story is told through a series of documents including classified reports, censored emails, and interviews. Illuminae is set in 2575 and is the story of teenage colonist Kady Grant and her fighter pilot boyfriend Ezra Mason.The series was acquired by Random House in a preempt in 2013. The first book in the series was published in late October 2015. It debuted at #5 on the New York Times Best Seller List Young Adult Hardcover list, and eventually reached the #2 spot. Illuminae was nominated for the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award, won the 2015 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction novel, the 2016 Gold Inky Award for best teen fiction, and the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award Book of the Year …
Illuminae is a 2015 young adult space opera epistolary novel written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. This is the first novel of the series The Illuminae Files. The story is told through a series of documents including classified reports, censored emails, and interviews. Illuminae is set in 2575 and is the story of teenage colonist Kady Grant and her fighter pilot boyfriend Ezra Mason.The series was acquired by Random House in a preempt in 2013. The first book in the series was published in late October 2015. It debuted at #5 on the New York Times Best Seller List Young Adult Hardcover list, and eventually reached the #2 spot. Illuminae was nominated for the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award, won the 2015 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction novel, the 2016 Gold Inky Award for best teen fiction, and the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award Book of the Year for Older Children.The sequel, Gemina, debuted at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction novel.The third book in the series, Obsidio, debuted at #6 on the New York Times children's series list, as the #1 young adult bestseller in Australia, and as a USA Today bestseller.An 82-page prequel novella, Memento, was released as a pre-order bonus in the United States for the authors' subsequent unrelated novel Aurora Rising.
mageofmip reviewed Illuminae by Jay Kristoff
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4 stars
This genre isn't my usual go-to. I don't usually go for science fiction. What drew me in about this book was the format-- the style. I love a book with an unconventional way to tell the story. Chat logs, pictures, dossiers, prose. If it's anything but standard paragraphs, I am on it like a magnet.
So, I can say that I found the general reading experience enjoyable, despite my few gripes. I had the unfortunate experience of disliking the two main characters, Kady and Ezra. More specifically, I disliked the interactions between the two, and even more so, their "romance". Luckily, as they were mostly chat logs, thy were very easy to speed through to get back to what I feel is the real meat of the story, the reason I could ignore the teenage love story and keep going with vigor: A space war, a deadly virus, and AIDAN. …
This genre isn't my usual go-to. I don't usually go for science fiction. What drew me in about this book was the format-- the style. I love a book with an unconventional way to tell the story. Chat logs, pictures, dossiers, prose. If it's anything but standard paragraphs, I am on it like a magnet.
So, I can say that I found the general reading experience enjoyable, despite my few gripes. I had the unfortunate experience of disliking the two main characters, Kady and Ezra. More specifically, I disliked the interactions between the two, and even more so, their "romance". Luckily, as they were mostly chat logs, thy were very easy to speed through to get back to what I feel is the real meat of the story, the reason I could ignore the teenage love story and keep going with vigor: A space war, a deadly virus, and AIDAN. Truly, the bulk of the story is about this. And while I wouldn't say "PHENOMENAL" in a caps-lock frenzy like many others, the story is gripping and the end left me wanting more. Left me feeling like the story is in it's infancy. And with the continuations in Gemina and Obsidio, that is all the more apparent. This is just the beginning for Illuminae, there's so much more that is so much bigger that this first book could hardly touch on, and I can't wait to take on the next book.