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Gemina
by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
Rating: 5/5
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/ Horror
Recommended Age: 16+ (mature content, language ((censored)), violence, gore, jump scares, a usual Jay Kristoff book).
Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.
The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.
Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.
When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station’s wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.
But relax. They’ve totally got this. They hope.
Once again told through a compelling dossier of emails, IMs, classified files, transcripts, and schematics, Gemina raises the stakes of the Illuminae Files, hurling readers into an enthralling new story that will leave them breathless. – Amazon.com
Hey look I finally read GEMINA! And OMG I AM WRECKED! I NEED THE NEXT BOOK IN THE SERIES! PLEASE JAY AND AMIE?! Anyways, on with the review! While this book is in a strictly mixed media format like Illuminae, it’s different. You get excerpts from a trial in this book and excerpts from a character’s journal that are in a scanned format and the way that the characters communicate to each other are very different from Illuminae. I don’t want to go into detail about it, but I will say that the difference in the communication worked for these characters very well in my opinion. I considered how Illuminae was wrote and tried to see in my mind if Gemina could have been wrote the same way, but I think the way the authors wrote it was very true to their characters, which I would rather have then equal writing styles. The characters included, while not all of the side characters were well defined, was very well done overall and I was surprised by the characters motives and actions throughout the book. I thought that plot was also very different from Illuminae. In Illuminae you have 4 main arcs in the book, while in this book you have 3 major arcs. This book spent more time on two of the arcs and it felt more drawn out, which I thought did well to accentuate the horrors in this book. This book also dealt with a topic that I am extremely picky on. I think that this “thing” that the book did is very hit or miss in books and in my opinion makes or breaks a book for me. I think that I might need to do a reread of it in order to get a better opinion of it, but from the first read through I think it was pretty well done.
However, even the best books that I read have some issues. The pacing in this book is slower than in Illuminae and while I thought the pacing was very well done I can see where other people might get put off by it. I think that it worked well to keep the reader in suspense, but others might not think the same as I do. I also think that there were some plot points in the book that were just done away with way too early and easily in the book then I believe they should have been. I don’t want to go into detail about it, but if you read the book then you might know what I’m talking about. Also, the “thing” described up above might be a breaking point for some readers because it depends on people’s interpretations of the theories surrounding the “thing”.
Verdict: I love this series and I love how it is written. Since starting a readalong of Illuminae I do realize that a lot of people don’t like this format style, but I do and I think it’s very well done. I’ve read books where mixed media is used and the book is just… bad and doesn’t do justice to the format, but this book isn’t one of those bad books. Amie and Jay make this book work and make these characters come alive through the screens of their palmpads or computers. Definitely will still recommend for sci-fi lovers and horror book lovers.
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/ Horror
Recommended Age: 16+ (mature content, language ((censored)), violence, gore, jump scares, a usual Jay Kristoff book).
Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.
The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.
Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.
When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station’s wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.
But relax. They’ve totally got this. They hope.
Once again told through a compelling dossier of emails, IMs, classified files, transcripts, and schematics, Gemina raises the stakes of the Illuminae Files, hurling readers into an enthralling new story that will leave them breathless. – Amazon.com
Hey look I finally read GEMINA! And OMG I AM WRECKED! I NEED THE NEXT BOOK IN THE SERIES! PLEASE JAY AND AMIE?! Anyways, on with the review! While this book is in a strictly mixed media format like Illuminae, it’s different. You get excerpts from a trial in this book and excerpts from a character’s journal that are in a scanned format and the way that the characters communicate to each other are very different from Illuminae. I don’t want to go into detail about it, but I will say that the difference in the communication worked for these characters very well in my opinion. I considered how Illuminae was wrote and tried to see in my mind if Gemina could have been wrote the same way, but I think the way the authors wrote it was very true to their characters, which I would rather have then equal writing styles. The characters included, while not all of the side characters were well defined, was very well done overall and I was surprised by the characters motives and actions throughout the book. I thought that plot was also very different from Illuminae. In Illuminae you have 4 main arcs in the book, while in this book you have 3 major arcs. This book spent more time on two of the arcs and it felt more drawn out, which I thought did well to accentuate the horrors in this book. This book also dealt with a topic that I am extremely picky on. I think that this “thing” that the book did is very hit or miss in books and in my opinion makes or breaks a book for me. I think that I might need to do a reread of it in order to get a better opinion of it, but from the first read through I think it was pretty well done.
However, even the best books that I read have some issues. The pacing in this book is slower than in Illuminae and while I thought the pacing was very well done I can see where other people might get put off by it. I think that it worked well to keep the reader in suspense, but others might not think the same as I do. I also think that there were some plot points in the book that were just done away with way too early and easily in the book then I believe they should have been. I don’t want to go into detail about it, but if you read the book then you might know what I’m talking about. Also, the “thing” described up above might be a breaking point for some readers because it depends on people’s interpretations of the theories surrounding the “thing”.
Verdict: I love this series and I love how it is written. Since starting a readalong of Illuminae I do realize that a lot of people don’t like this format style, but I do and I think it’s very well done. I’ve read books where mixed media is used and the book is just… bad and doesn’t do justice to the format, but this book isn’t one of those bad books. Amie and Jay make this book work and make these characters come alive through the screens of their palmpads or computers. Definitely will still recommend for sci-fi lovers and horror book lovers.