As if this is not a disaster enough, the spaceship’s artificial intelligence control AIDAN appears to be trying to kill every single soul on the ship.ĪIDAN has successfully destroyed another ship in their own fleet called Copernicus already and there seems to be no different end in sight for the Alexander. And hundreds of mad people, trapped on a ship with no escape, means, eventually there will be no one left alive. This included a mutating virus called Phobos, and everyone who was exposed to this is now turning into murdering madman. You see, the attacking giant corporation of Beitech industries used bio-weapons on Kerenza. Named The Alexander and science ship Hypatia, these ships slowly become places of a disaster even bigger then their lost planet. Eventually though, the survivors are separated as Ezra is called on to join the defense crew, while their spaceships are on the run. Kady and Ezra end up in Kady’s car and eventually one of the few lucky survivors to make it to the Alexander – part of the rescue fleet. Kady Grant and Ezra Mason are facing a difficult day at school due to their extremely recent break-up, when their world is literally torn apart by attacking warships. The year is 2575, the place is an obscure corner in the forgotten part of the universe called Kerenza, which only interesting enough because of the illegal mining operations. The cover also features one of the best lines from the book:įirst, survive. The look of this text pieces is like burnt fragments flying in the wind, or the lottery stickers scratched with a coin. Featuring a background in shades of fiery and explosive red to orange are shown scratches of text. One of the most appealing thing about this book is how it is set-up in terms of structure, and the cover page gives you hints of it.

The book is quite an eye-catcher, giving us a pause to think about the effect of cover pages and packaging on browsers and readers perusing bookshelves looking for the next read.

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff | Book Cover

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