Illuminae

It was very hard for me to get into this book. I was excited to read it because of the unusual way it was written, but because of that, it ended up being very hard for me to follow what was happening pretty much throughout the whole story, but especially at the beginning. I had a harder time following who characters were and what their role was in the story.

The characters also didn't feel like they had much depth, and I didn't ever really feel connected with them and engaged with what was happening in their world.

I think that the romance was a little too lovesick for me. I didn't like that their relationship was only communicated through “texting” because of the text slang and emoticons used. I felt like they didn't have true conversations and instead just talked about how much they missed each other all the time. It just felt too much like middle school / high school drama.

I think the concept of the book was interesting, but I think it would have worked better as a video game than as a book.