Spoiler Free Illuminae Review

Ok, so I am late in posting about this book since I read it last month. That's ok though. It's better late than never!

So, Illuminae by Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. I originally bought it because of the hype and the fact that I am absolutely crazy about the cover design. I have only read one other sci fi series before this book and that was the LUX series, which I absolutely loved. I knew Illuminae was going to be different from LUX but, as I am wanting to broaden my horizons, I went for it. I knew that even if I didn't like it, it still looked awesome so it would be worth it.

I ended up liking this book though. I LOVED it! It is now one of my favorite books. I loved everything about this book. I loved the main characters, the story, and look of this book. I really like the way this story was told as well. I am a sucker for unique and this book was definitely that. One of the things that makes this book intimidating is the size of it. It was around 600 pages long after all! However, it was definitely one of those "looks can be deceiving" situations as you will actually fly through the book. There were a few illustrations and also a lot of pages that only had a couple words on them. Because of this, many people have been able to read it in a day. I am to busy to be able to do that without sacrificing the house work at the very least. Plus, I was in a heavy reading slump when I got this book. I think it took me a week or 2 to get through it. I absolutely hated having to put it down though! I really wanted to just do nothing but read this book but I couldn't. I have kids that need to eat :) The absolute WORST time that I had to put the book down was when I only had like, 20 pages left of the book and I had to leave for work. 8 straight hours without my book that I so desperately wanted to finish. I couldn't stop thinking about the book and talked to anyone who would listen about it. I couldn't wait to get home to finish. I closed that night so I had to wait until after 12;30 a.m. to be able to get back to my precious book. When I finally did get home, I didn't even change my cloths first. I sat down and finished the book in like 5-10 minutes. That's how much I loved this book and I SO can't wait for the second one to come!

So, as you probably guessed, this book got a 5 star rating from me (using Goodreads rating system).

Well, that's it for this post! Let me know if you guys have read this book yet or not and what you thought about it!

Thanks for reading and see you soon!