Loved itAnd then through Amy was introduced to The Illuminae Files that she co-wrote with Jay Kristoff, which I absolutely loved. That was also a fantastic series that I highly recommend.
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Illuminae (2013)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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 only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again.
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- 9780553499148
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- 616 pages
Genres: science fiction, young adult
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Loved itit is just a really immersive sci-fi book that I love I love this series
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Loved itI read the first chapter in a video where I was reading the first chapter of a bunch of like ya fantasy and sci-fi things and I Don't Remember Loving It and then I tried it out again maybe like 6 months or a year later and I loved it five stars
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Loved itI love illuminating because it's very different and techy and the audiobook combination with like actually following along in the book it gives you this multimedia experience that you don't really get with any other story
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Loved itI loved illuminae it was on my favorite books of 2017
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Loved itBut Gemina is definitely a big enough audio recording for you to enjoy just as much, at least in my opinion because I loved Illuminae just as much as I loved Gemina even though I consumed them in completely different formats.
Loved itthese audiobooks are just the coolest thing i've ever listened to you i'll sit and just stare at the wall and listen to these audiobooks because they're so good
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Loved iti freaking love these books so much this series just so mind-blowing and gives you trust issues and it's just non-stop action and the romance and everything it's just so cute and adorable and action-packed
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Loved itIlluminae, book one, was one of my favorites of 2015.
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Loved itthe reason why I'm obsessed with this book is because this is a story that has such amazing it has just this book has an amazing plot to put it simply I read this book in literally two sittings
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Loved itI was really scared about this one because I loved illuminate so much and I loved the document format that illuminate was told in
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Mixedthe one thing that did annoy me about this is that the swearing is blanked out I'm not really sure why because I think swearing's fine but it kind of irritated me a bit but other than that I thought this was fantastically well written really adventurous
Loved itit's full of action there's some romance there's some flirting there's like weird I am language there's death and fighting and robots and it's set in space and it's just so good
Loved itI love sci-fi set in space, I love books that explore artificial intelligence, and I love apocalypse type stories and that's all happening in this book. And it's told in such a unique and engaging format...