I am going to be merciful 1 and break it down for you WHY you should read the book. More than that, Illuminae is the super clever, scary, romantic, adventurous, futuristic space romp, fist-pumping female-empowering epistolary novel of my dreams. It seems a bit silly to say that Illuminae is one of the most fun books I’ve read this year given how genuinely harrowing a book it is. How did we get this book: ARC from the publisher Stand alone or series: Book 1 in The Illuminae Files 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. Genre: Science Fiction, Epistolary Novel, Young Adult A spectacular, gut-wrenching beauty of a book.

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman