You have an “off voice” sounding like these distorted voices of masked witnesses you hear on the television. We have a whole crew of narrators, every single one really good AND we have special effects. In the beginning, I had the same issues but soon enough, I truly was immersed in the story and able to finish it in a matter of a few days. Yet, as everyone was gushing over that book, a trusted friend recommended the audiobook to me. But we only had two formats: one podcast and Sadie POV. There is only one physical book that broke that rule and still interested me: Sadie. I simply could not focus as I apparently need something more linear with the plot unfurling steadily with one or two point of view, bare of briefing notes or interviews. You are constantly shifting between these formats and that made for a broken story.

This book is very unique in its conception as you have files, briefing notes, then dialogues and some schemas of spaceships. I went the “classic” road and had the paperback but I stopped after 120 pages as the format was putting me off my read. I first tried to read this book nearly two years ago. Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents - including emails, maps, files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more - Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes. As Kady hacks into a web of data to find the truth, it’s clear the only person who can help her is the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results the fleet’s AI may actually be their enemy and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra - who are barely even talking to each other-are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.īut their problems are just getting started.

The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do.

Illuminae amie kaufman jay kristoff