

What was she going to do? So no, I didn’t see all those things coming. To be fair, I was so eager to see what was going to happen that I probably went through it too fast to really think about what was happening. The countdown pages were probably the ones I dreaded the most reading, they put me in the same state of urgency as the characters. I believe that the design choices made for the visual part of the book helped a lot to build the ambience of the story. I really felt the anxiety in fleeing the Lincoln, the crowded ambience and the fear that came after the contagion of the Phobos beta virus. Though there isn’t a lot to be said of the generic future setting of this book, I enjoyed the atmosphere the authors created. Turns out it suits the story wonderfully. I was really intrigued about this unique format and it’s probably the top reason why I wanted to check this one out. A unique atmosphereĪs most of you know, the story of Illuminae is narrated through case files: interviews, e-mails, messages, reports and so on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it’s clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again.


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. 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.īut their problems are just getting started. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. 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.
