Hanna Donnelly is the station captain's pampered daughter and Nik Malikov is the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. Together they struggle with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, blissfully unaware that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall with news of the Kerenza invasion.
Picking up about five minutes after Illuminae ends, Gemina is the electrifying sequel to the hottest YA novel of 2015.
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(Rock the Boat, 20 October 2016, 659 pages, paperback, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2020, a book with a robot, cyborg or AI character, borrowed from @GlasgowLib)
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Illuminae blew my mind when I read it last year. It was unlike anything I'd read before. On two fronts. I'd never read a book featuring AI before. The structure and the style of the book was completely unique. Gemina ticked all of the boxes for me and is just as fantastic as its predecessor. The story picks up right off where Illuminae ended. Kaufman and Kristoff use the same unique structure as the first book. This book doesn't contain straight-forward prose you'd expect from a novel, but a collection of data from different sources such as reports from surveillance camera footage, printouts of ramblings by the rogue AI and hacked communication channels. All of these add up to a unique, heart-pounding story. I loved it and cannot wait to read the final volume, Obsidio.
