These books have been absolutely incredible. One of my all-time favourite series.

I have never found myself saying "Well ████" more often than when reading The Illuminae Files. There are so many gut-wrenching moments, followed by light and funny moments, all intertwined with so many emotions.
The phrase "You're gonna suffer, but you'll be happy about it" is a very good summary of the trilogy.

As amazing as the action is, it is the characters who make this whole story really quite remarkable.
I won't go into detail as to how much I care for each and every one of them (I could go on about Kady and Ezra all day) but I'll simply note how amazed I am that I care SO MUCH about SO MANY HUMANS AT ONCE. Even characters who got introduced quickly and died two pages later, I CARED. Too much.
EVEN A ████ING SPACESHIP!!!

However, the best thing to come out of this book is undoubtedly AIDAN. Every single one of those black pages wripped my heart out.
Jay and Amie definitely weren't merciful...

Now, the ending.
I can't believe I'm only giving this 4stars but I honestly have to with this one because I felt like it was all a little too... quick? to end.
Everything was going down, things exploding everywhere, cats hanging on by a thread... And it just stopped. And they quickly told us an ending...
That is not satisfying enough for me.
I expected more.

And gosh, yes, my expectations were incredibly high because the previous books were outstanding and mind blowing so of course I wanted an ending to blow my mind too.

A couple of other things helped me deduct that final star for my review: lack of Ella, characters on Kerenza IV didn't interest me as much as the others (although I cared for them more than I'd exepected before starting the book), saw a couple things coming

Spoiler

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The book as a whole was great.
The series as a whole was absolutely fantastic.
The way it is told is refreshing, there is action all throughout and the characters are so damn loveable. For that it will always remain one of my favourite book series of all time.

Song to not listen to when reading Obsidio: Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story, from Hamilton.