Beautiful.

This book is totally up my alley. On paper, it has everything for a five star review. My favorite novels of all time are sci-fi, futuristic, epistolary novels. HELLO ILLUMINAE!

Unfortunately, I think it was just a little to YA for me. I had trouble with the text/IM speak - perhaps I'm more traditional than I realized. I think it also is the reason I found myself questioning the plausibility of our two main characters to be so common sensical and able to transform from love struck, awkward teenagers to war heroes in an instant.

Illuminae is so unique in its epistolary format, and the doodles and drawings truly added to the story.

Sci-fi, disease outbreak, conspiracy theories, artificial intelligence, romance - this book combines all of my favorite things without it seeming like too much. Surprisingly, with all of these fantastical and futuristic elements, the part of this book I found the least realistic? The romance.

READ if you like sci-fi and epistolary and want to read something completely unique.

DON'T READ if you're looking for anything remotely "traditional" OR if you get annoyed by awkward teenagers and lols.

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Okay before I start this blog just look at this book summary by Jay Kristoff. It is excellent and entertaining. I just wanted to share it.

So first off, WHAT?!?!

How was this book made? Who thought of this? Do the authors want to kill me?

This story was a spectacular story. It was just the right amount if intense mixed with the right amount of comedy and of course the right amount of romance.

This book was such a quick read. The way it was formatted made it so you could fly through the story. The way it was written was epic. For those of you who don’t know it is made in a series of government files, interviews, security surveillance footage, etc. I don’t understand how they made this though. I just love every detail they put into the work. This really makes the story stand out and you can just see how unique this story is. Visually, this story was beautiful.

Let’s talk about plot. So what is with all the plot twists? There were so many twists and turns I felt like I was flopping around like a fish by the end. Kristoff and Kaufman made me feel so many emotions. I was basically like this the entire time:

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I love plot twists are the best things ever.

Not only was their a war but there was also an evil AI system AND a creepy plague. A lot of the times it is hard for authors to have multiple conflicts and multiple story lines but these two worked so well together and really made this story amazing. Beginning of the story was slow but it built up in to a great action packed story.

Although I love this book I have to admit that the characters are dull. They are normal people. Most authors create stunning characters. The only things that were really different about the characters and a normal teenagers was Kady’s pink hair and the fact that they lived on a different planet.

I want to say so much because it was just an outstanding book but then I would spoil everything. So I ain’t gonna. Just go read the book.

I know this was super short but as I am writing this it has been three months since I read it and I just want to end this blog post so I can talk about the next story in the series Gemina which go check out my review for that book please.

Anyways thank you so much for reading.

Star Rating: 4.7