The story is told through a series of documents including classified reports, censored emails, and interviews. This is the first novel of the series The Illuminae Files. Although tagged as YA fiction older readers will be equally engrossed. Illuminae is a 2015 young adult space opera epistolary novel written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The audio version is magnificent - with out of space music, electronic beeps and sound effects, mechanical voices, along with passion and urgency in the human narrators - an engrossing performance.
This is a complex and thought provoking story with strong characters facing life and death moral choices. Tough, resourceful computer hacker Kady is the main protagonist along with AI (Aiden) - the computer who manipulates events so that the captains no longer trust him. However they are tracked by a lethal warship intent on obliterating all evidence of the deed and all survivors. Survivors are rescued by a fleet of damaged space ships. Told from multiple perspectives - human, mechanical and from reports and recordings, the overarching theme is of a hostile takeover of a planet inhabited by an illegal mining company that uses biological warfare that results in those exposed becoming raving, aggressive and murderous. When the only person you trust is a computer.Ī totally original, gripping and engrossing novel.
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