Illuminae

The Illuminae Files, Book 1

By: Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, Jonathan McClain

Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Warner Bros are set to bring YA sci-fi novel Illuminae to the big screen.

The year is 2575, and two megacorporations are at war over a planet that's little more than an ice-covered speck. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it.

With enemy fire raining down on them, Ezra and Kady have to make their escape on the evacuating fleet. But their troubles are just beginning.

A deadly plague has broken out on one of the spaceships and is mutating, with terrifying results. Their ship's protection is seriously flawed.

No one will say what is going on. As Kady hacks in to a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her: Ezra. And the only problem with that is they split up before all this trouble started, and she isn't supposed to be talking to him.

A fantastically original, heart-stopping adventure where everything is definitely more dangerous than it seems.

©2015 Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (P)2015 Listening Library

Not the ideal pandemic read...

The epistolary-type format of this book is very interesting and different, but I thought it might make it difficult to read the book, so I picked up the audiobook and I'm glad I did. The performance 100% made this.

The first half of the story I found incredibly slow, with all the good pieces of writing (unattributed) quotes from other pieces of literature. I was about to give up when the action started. Some of the action hit a bit close to home because airborne virus anyone? And it was incredibly gory and intense. Not my kind of book right now, especially when they had the "wear your face masks and wash your hands" announcement. *shiver*. But I had to know what happened.

I found the last quarter of the book the most enjoyable, even though there was a lot of death. It was intense and unpredictable and the performances greatly enhanced it.

An epic blind movie!

I've always been skeptical of audiobooks and Illuminae was my very first audiobook, which I downloaded during my free trial with Audible. The experience was seriously awesome, with more than 20 narrators and special effects! The narrators were so animated, and the explosive special effects really made the experience like watching a movie blind. Illuminae has ruined me for all other audiobooks!

A. MUST. READ. (or listen lol)

I JUST LOVED IT. THIS SHOULD BE ON YOUR BUCKET LIST. LISTEN TO IT OR LOSE IT.