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.
Of course I buddy read this awesomeness with
my soul sister and
Wonder Woman™. Our minds were blown, put back together and blown again.
incoherent coherent thoughts I had while reading this book -
↠ Issac Grant is the dad everyone aspires to be? He literally parents these crazy kids while he's bedridden and goes all Captain America on them when they swear and
can I just steal away Dr. Grant?
↠ I wasn't so sure about Asha and Rhys at first cause I adore the other four so much. But I also felt wary of Nik and Hanna when I started Gemina. So basically Asha and phys aren't my favourite but I really liked them. Asha is so kind, brave and there were some scenes with her that made me tear up. I'll just say,
Asha is the kind of person I want for a sister. And
Rhys has great hair? That's important. Also he's a dork with girlfriend stuff and reminded me a bit of Ezra.
↠ AIDAN oh heavens. I legit can't say anything without giving away huge spoilers so
I just am going to flail over the fact that the character who made me the most thoughtful was a frigging AI. Also where would this series be without our murderous AI right? His evolution is basically the main plot of the story and also he's so dramatic sometimes?
Also an AI made me cry? Kristoff and Kaufman, what freaking black magic are you brewing??
“I am clarity.
I am necessity.
I am inevitability.
But am I evil?”
↠ Kady Grant is the most badassest badass to ever badass (
Wow look at my English knowledge. I surprise myself). Like I know many like Hanna the most, but for me it's Kady and also Ella!
Like these two hacker girls with murderous intentions, being parented by Issac Grant can wreck more havoc than the rest of the group put together.
“Hey, if hostile battleship takeovers were easy, everybody would do it.”
↠ So I was thinking, I know the authors' thought process now, I'll totally see the plot twists com⎯
THE HELL JUST HAPPENED? TELL ME THAT DID NOT HAPPEN! Although to give me benefit, I did see one of the plot twists coming. So there!
↠ People die. Okay come on that's not a spoiler.
Jay Kristoff wrote this. Of course people die. I'm not over some deaths.
“Would you kill one person to save one thousand? And by logical extension, would you not kill one thousand to save one-thousand-and-one?”
↠ It's funny how quotable these books are considering most of it is not in the regular prose format. I mean it's all emails and SMS and notices and
somehow it's still freaking quotable?
“The die is cast. But today we will shake the table upon which it lands.”
↠ Little Hypatia (
I'm just gonna leave this here with no context. You'll have to read and find out)
↠ I love how complex all the characters are. Even those characters who are there for literally two pages are so multi-faceted, three dimensional and leave lasting impressions. There are so many morally grey characters and I loved how I couldn't quite decide what I feel about some characters because they're so complex and real and I'm just blabbering as I marvel at the authors' brilliance.
“This is a war! ‘Right’ is whatever the people who’re standing at the end say it is. ‘Right’ is decided by the people who win.”
↠ That ending. Also what happens after.
I am still shooketh. I got goosebumps all over when I turned that last page.
Can someone make a series of this trilogy? Netflix you listening? Not a movie because no way in hell any of these books be crammed into a 2 hour movie.
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