Illuminae

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 10, 2015

Review

This story is about a big corporation named BeiTech that attacks a planet where illegal mining is going on. BeiTech kills almost everyone but a few people manage to escape. For BeiTech this is bad news, because if word gets out about what they did, the consequences will swift and severe. The people that escaped are now on a battlecarrier trying to escape. But their carrier is crippled and on top of that the computer controlling their battlecarrier, has gone psycho and is killing people.

This book is actually a bunch of files that have been compiled on the attack and what happened afterwards. The files are filled with action, humor, suspense, twists, a bit of romance and some cool graphics. The main character Kady has some mad hacking skills and is pretty funny. The computer that goes psycho, Aidan, is creepy but totally believable. At 599 pages this is a big book BUT many of those pages are filled with graphics that add so much to the story. This book will be great for sci-fi fans but dystopian fans will like it too. Pick this one up for your 13+ readers, they will eat it up. Cream

Overall Book Score: excellent