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A review by luhsoona
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
3.0
I'm not finished yet, about 2/3rds through the audiobook. I will say this:
I didn't read this on my kindle BECAUSE of the formatting, so I can't comment on that. I feel like I understand where people are coming from when they say the format made them feel detached and unfocused. I REALLY enjoy the audio book overall, it was great to listen to while I was moving out, and I didn't feel lost at all.
3 stars not because of the story, the story is good so far imo, but for the characters. Ezra doesn't feel like anything special to me so far, but he sounds like a good guy, I just don't buy into him and Kady's love. I understand though, they're teenagers going through the apocalypse with nobody else, I'd attach myself to pretty much anything in the same situation.
Kady is two things for me, one a lot of people think she's a strong female character, and I think she... just could be. I like the gender roles are flipped where the girl is seen as the less emotional, sensitive, and loving one. I think that's my favorite thing about these characters. However, I feel like she falls flatter than Ezra otherwise. She doesn't have any trait other than hacking to me, her personality seems built around that specific trait, it was hard for me to care about her.
Will comment more when I finish. (SPOILERS AHEAD)
Okay, I would believe that the deus ex machina where everyone lives is something the publisher planned to make this a trilogy instead of a standalone if they didn't allude to other shit already. God the last half of the book is exhausting to read, I'm REALLY not a fan of ai develops attachment to girl tropes. And apparently he helps somehow from what I can tell? Why? It doesn't make sense why let something live that... Could destroys thousands of fucking lives I guess. I'm tired. I liked this book before the end relatively, and now I'm like well. Okay. I'll probably keep reading, but audio book only. I don't think I could consume this in another format, the audio book applied voices and character to the characters that made me interested.
May lower to two stars, but I know. I was interested enough to finish, that's the thing with YA, a lot happens so I always want to fly through it and keep reading.
I didn't read this on my kindle BECAUSE of the formatting, so I can't comment on that. I feel like I understand where people are coming from when they say the format made them feel detached and unfocused. I REALLY enjoy the audio book overall, it was great to listen to while I was moving out, and I didn't feel lost at all.
3 stars not because of the story, the story is good so far imo, but for the characters. Ezra doesn't feel like anything special to me so far, but he sounds like a good guy, I just don't buy into him and Kady's love. I understand though, they're teenagers going through the apocalypse with nobody else, I'd attach myself to pretty much anything in the same situation.
Kady is two things for me, one a lot of people think she's a strong female character, and I think she... just could be. I like the gender roles are flipped where the girl is seen as the less emotional, sensitive, and loving one. I think that's my favorite thing about these characters. However, I feel like she falls flatter than Ezra otherwise. She doesn't have any trait other than hacking to me, her personality seems built around that specific trait, it was hard for me to care about her.
Will comment more when I finish. (SPOILERS AHEAD)
Okay, I would believe that the deus ex machina where everyone lives is something the publisher planned to make this a trilogy instead of a standalone if they didn't allude to other shit already. God the last half of the book is exhausting to read, I'm REALLY not a fan of ai develops attachment to girl tropes. And apparently he helps somehow from what I can tell? Why? It doesn't make sense why let something live that... Could destroys thousands of fucking lives I guess. I'm tired. I liked this book before the end relatively, and now I'm like well. Okay. I'll probably keep reading, but audio book only. I don't think I could consume this in another format, the audio book applied voices and character to the characters that made me interested.
May lower to two stars, but I know. I was interested enough to finish, that's the thing with YA, a lot happens so I always want to fly through it and keep reading.