Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents, Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy. As Kady plunges into a web of data hacking to get to the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: Ezra. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their biggest threat and nobody in charge will say what's really going on. Now, with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.īut the warship could be the least of their problems. Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing she'd ever been through. Although tagged as YA fiction older readers will be equally engrossed.The internationally bestselling first book in a high-octane trilogy

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. She is a mediator and author of science fiction.

However they are tracked by a lethal warship intent on obliterating all evidence of the deed and all survivors. About the author (2016) Amie Kaufman graduated with honors degrees in history, literature and law, and a master's degree in conflict resolution. This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. Survivors are rescued by a fleet of damaged space ships. Illuminae is the NYT and internationally bestselling first book in a new trilogy co-authored with Jay Kristoff, and in development for film with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. 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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