Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Obsidio by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (The Illuminae Files book 3)

SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t read the first two books in the series, Illuminae and Gemina, Stop! I don’t want to ruin one of my favorite series for you.

Check out Book Series Recaps for a refresher of the first book.
Check out Book Series Recaps for a refresher of the second book.

“Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza—but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? 

Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys—an old flame from Asha's past—reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. 

With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heroes will fall, and hearts will be broken.” taken from Goodreads.com

When I found the first book in The Illuminae Files I didn’t think I would like the book. I am a straight up prose reader and at first, I didn’t think I could get into the dossier format of the book. But the initial exchange of the Kerenza attack by Kady Grant sucked me in. In Obsidio, two more main characters are introduced, Asha Grant and Rhys Lindstrom, bringing the total to seven. Even though we don’t get to know these two new figures as well as the others, they still play an integral part of the overall story. 

As we learned at the end of Gemina who is behind the files and why here we see how everything comes together. With an impressing and satisfying conclusion, this series ranks as one of my all-time favorites. In the acknowledgments, the authors announce their next joint series, The Andromeda Cycle!

I also keep hearing how entertaining the audio versions of the books are that I have already bought the first one to listen to. 

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