Summary:\u00a0This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she\u2019d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Set in space,<\/span> Illuminae<\/i><\/b> encompasses many more genres than just science fiction. It\u2019s also about romance, human nature, and a touch of horror. The story starts out on an illegal mining colony, far away from civilization. It\u2019s attacked by a corporation that is seeking to destroy it. Only a timely intervention by a battlecruiser owned by the government saves the population. The command on board immediately begins to recruit the populace to replenish their numbers. The main character, Kady, dealing with her breakup with her boyfriend, Ezra, dodges the ban and instead uses her hacking skills to poke around the ship. When the AI suddenly nukes another craft in their fleet, they have to wonder what they really signed up for. <\/span> Find this book in our catalog: Illuminae<\/a><\/p>\n Catalog Number: YA SF KAUFMAN,A<\/p>\n 599 pages<\/p>\n More Recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n review by\u00a0John Chon, age 14 Illuminae\u00a0by\u00a0Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman Summary:\u00a0This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she\u2019d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. 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\nThe year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that\u2019s 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\u2014who are barely even talking to each other\u2014are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.
\nBut 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\u2019s really going 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\u00a0swore<\/i>\u00a0she’d never speak to again.
\n<\/em>BRIEFING NOTE:\u00a0Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents\u2014including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more\u2014Illuminae<\/i>\u00a0is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes. – Goodreads<\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This book blended the themes perfectly. It portrayed a disaster and the results well, all from the point of view of various emails, memos, documents, and messages. I liked how the story wasn\u2019t told in full from one point of view; rather we rarely saw what the characters didn\u2019t project into reality. It really made me cherish those few occasions the reader saw into a character\u2019s diary. However, the ending, which I won\u2019t spoil, felt a bit underwhelming, as it left me feeling as if the writers were lazy in trying to end the book. It does, however, hint at a sequel, which I will be reading next. All in all, I enjoyed this book for the most part. 4 stars. <\/span><\/p>\n
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