
It was a point of difference from your other sci fi teen novels and it made it so interesting.

It was a little jolting to get used to at first but once I got into the rhythm of it, it was one of the books greatest assets in my opinion. The files include, interview transcripts, message chats, emails, descriptions of surveillance footage, notes from the collectors of the files, maps and more. It’s told through all types of mixed media and snippets pulled together into a dossier called the Illuminae files. I think that’s what drew me to this story finally. This book is one you really have to read in a physical copy as it’s in a very unique style, made up of no dialogue whatsoever. “All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going”īut this is not simply a game of running out the clock, and when the military ships AI guns down one of the civilian ships, Kady realises there is more going on than it seems and is on a mission to get to the bottom of it. All three ships are fleeing the planet, their attackers in hot pursuit and about six months from a portal that will bring them safety. One is a military ship that came to aid the planets distress call and the others are civilian ships. Somehow they make it out alive, when so many don’t, onto three escaping ships. And that’s their biggest problem until the illegal mining town the live on, on a distant planet is attacked.


Illuminae follows Kady and Ezra, two teens who have just broken up. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.” It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you.

“The universe owes you nothing…It has already given you everything, after all. In hindsight, given the subject matter, during a world wide pandemic was probably not the best time to read a book featuring a deadly virus. I finally read Illuminae! I feel like I’m one of the last people to do it, I’ve seen it everywhere for so long and read heaps of good reviews and I don’t know why but I finally decided to read it.
