The Illuminae Files_01 Review

​The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff is an amazing book. I really love this book. It literally took me forever to pick up this book and read it. I think it has been on my bookshelf since it first came out, but I didn’t start reading it till yesterday. I defiantly only bought this book because I thought the cover was beautiful, but then the third book came out recently and I was hearing such great things about the series. So, I decided to read it.
When I first started to read this book, I was not sure how I was going to like how the format was because I thought it would be confusing, but I really liked it. It was interesting to see how the documents related to the events being told through the chats of the characters. I do admit that sometimes it was a bit confusing at some points but it’s okay. And I’m all for seeing how humans created robots to help and it comes back to bite us in the butt. I loved how ADIEN would describe his thought and how he sees what is going on. The page where Ezra is facing the Lincoln fleet and ADIEN describes his battle strategies as death blooming is beautiful. It is my favorite page in the book.
            It was defiantly weird to not get an outright description of characters at the beginning of the story because I had no idea how to picture them in my mind. But I did like that the action started right away and that there was never a slow point in the book. I would try to get to a stopping point and one would never come. So that’s why I finished this book is less than a day.
            The witty banter had to be my favorite part and the fact that Kady Grant had the worst day ever as she broke up with her boyfriend and her home was destroyed and she had to flee the planet. Like I thought I have had bad days but now in comparison my days are fine. So, if you are having a bad day just remember it could be worse.J it warmed my heart that Ezra Mason did not actually die and that he was in the other ship the entire time because I cried for a good 10 minutes when ADIEN told Kady that.
            I loved this book so much, it was amazing, and it has earned a spot on my top bookshelf where I keep my favorite book series! I think I you can give this book a chance it will suck you in and you will not be able to put it down!

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