Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

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4.5 Stars

I honestly liked the first book better. I feel that there was more action in this book then the first though. I think adding parts of the court proceedings into the book was genius. I wish there was more Kady/AIDEN love-action going on. I have more of a preference to the characters in the first book then in this one. I like how the book took place on Heimdall and confirmed Kady suspicions about someone from Beitech infiltrating the space station, to prevent further assistance to the Kerenza Colony and the Hypatia/Alexander fleet. It made the story more well-rounded and filled in holes for us while adding on to the story. The plot twist at the end had me all fucked up (multi-universes...).

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

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5 Stars...

I think this book is very well written. Parts of it reminded me of the show Dark Matter which is probably why I enjoyed it so much (mostly about how the AI doesn't act like normal AI's). The way story is told is in a very unique way which I think added to the enjoyment of the book. The Series is called The Illuminae Files and how the authors wrote the book was in actual file format keeping to the series title. The characters and the plot were well written. I thought the ending was decent overall, but I was really hoping for Ezra to be dead at the end. I really wanted Kady to fall in love with their AI, AIDEN. Throughout the book it seemed like AIDEN was falling in love with Kady and I really wanted to see them try to make a love between a human and an AI work. That's the only thing that disappointed me. Otherwise I loved the book. #Kaiden all the way.