Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

5 Stars
​Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Library Binding, 608 pages
Published October 18th 2016 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
​Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.

The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.

Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.

When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station’s wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.

But relax. They’ve totally got this. They hope.

Once again told through a compelling dossier of emails, IMs, classified files, transcripts, and schematics, Gemina raises the stakes of the Illuminae Files, hurling readers into an enthralling new story that will leave them breathless.

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My Thoughts

. I read this one directly after reading Illuminae for the second time. At first I found it quite jarring having a new set of characters. I knew it was going to happen of course, but these personalities were quite different from Kady and Ezra. But after a while I got used to the characters once the hardship hit and the facede of being a preppy girl dropped.  Like the first book this one slowly got more and more intense. And as the intensity increased the more addicted I became. This book was absolutely amazing and I am desperate for 2018 to get her so I can have book three.