Review: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Challenges: Around the Year in 52 Books: Epistolary fiction This book is perhaps not epistolary fiction strictly speaking, but it is definitely written in a different format. We have chat logs, reports from different officials, statistics and all sorts of other things. It’s a very visual book, and I think the format works well for the story. In this book we follow Kady Grant. Her planet has recently been attacked and she has been saved and taken on board a space ship. However, the attackers are in hot pursuit and soon it becomes difficult to tell friend from enemy when a zombie-like virus and a willfull AI main computer throw some wrenches in the machinery. Being a skilled hacker Kady decides to figure out just exactly what is going on and what she discovers runs far deeper than she expected. This story was action from start to finish, but peppered with great friendships, relationships, philosophical and moral musings and twisting plots. I loved...