#JayKristoff and #AmieKaufman are EVIL. Not James Patterson evil, where he is driving my library broke and needs to be assassinated for putting his name on everything. No, this is more the I NEED #3 NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! type of evil. The type of evil, where you are annoyed they put out something so good and left you in a lurch realizing that the horizon of the next book is over a year away, since this one is not even published yet.

I will not lie, I had not read Illuminae before I picked up a copy of Gemina at BEA. I had read the first book of the Lotus Wars (and plan to get back to the series soon). It was only after a game of Heads or Butts over 3 copies of Nevernight, and standing in the very tall shadow of Mr. Jay that I decided I needed this book. And that the three teenagers with me for Book Con had to experience standing in line for 2.5 hours for a BOOK! And let me tell you it was WORTH IT! (2 books in a few weeks worth it).

Gemina runs congruent and a little after Illuminae. And we have a different cast of characters. I was a little worried about this at first because it can be a failure (Forest of Hands and Teeth, I'm looking at you). That is not the case here. We start off with Hanna. The pretty rich girl military brat whose daddy is commander of the Hemidall station. I want to hate her so bad, and in the beginning I do. After running off to meet with her drug dealer to get some party favors for Terra Day. I want to hate her. As a military brat these were the girls I could not stand growing up. But here I am, fallen in love with a character who I should hate. You just cant help yourself. Then there is Nik, the drug dealer. He, I also want to hate. I am against everything he does, at least for the first 50-100 pages. But then, gosh dang it, there goes the character love again. Then there is Ella the tech genius. Her you love from the moment you meet her.

I said books 1 and 2 run congruent. Hypathia is on its way to Hemidall, but BioTech has sent henchmen to Hemidall to make sure the Hypathia does not make it. All heck breaks loose, and the fight for survival is on. Some things I saw coming from a mile away (Bad guy, no surprise), but the physics stuff. I studied physics and have had many debates about the possibilities brought to life in this book, and it makes me a little mad I missed it. My physics club would be so disappointed in me.

So the authors have stated that this is a trilogy. Ah oh, better watch out for the dreaded 2nd book slump. Do not worry about that here. No slump detected. I know some other reviews thought there was a small one, but not this reviewer. This still had the "Put Me Down and DIE" feeling to reading. I'm saying that even reading a galley, that is missing most pictures and galley (but descriptions are present) throughout the book. Sleepless nights, and get nothing done days have happened because of this book series. The most dastardly thing is that I will have to wait over a year to see #3 since this book is not even out yet. UGHHHHHHHHHHH

I lied, I can say that this book has the absolutely WORST last line in a book EVER!!! Jay, Amie, YES I "wanna know how it ends?"!