Illuminae chronicles this duo as they discover the reasons behind the attack and the fate that is in store for their community. Kady and Ezra escape on spaceships, with Kady being on the Hypatia and Ezra on the Alexander. The story chronicles Kady Grant and Ezra Mason, a young couple who breaks up on the same day their colony is attacked by a giant corporation. The cover of Illuminae is representative of what you’ll find inside! From email logs, to video surveillance summaries, to government documents and more, Illuminae is experimental writing done right.

Illuminae is told through a series of hacked documents and presented to the reader as one large case file. This brick of a book is 600 pages, yet flies by due to its experimental writing style. I knew Illumiae would be a unique reading experience ever since I picked it up at Book Expo America (“BEA”) this past May. Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents-including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more-Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes. 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. This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on October 20, 2015 Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

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