Illuminae

I would like to give it 5 stars - really - the first 2 thirds were great! The Ezra and Astro-Princess part was a bit teen-romancy I guess, which is not really my thing but the interesting other interviews, reports etc were making up for it so I was really excited to finish it. Then there's a great plot twist:
EZRA'S ACTUALLY DEAD AND IT WAS THE A.I. ALL ALONG OMG!! But wait - if he's dead, then how the **** did he die? Doesn't a main character deserve a bit more than that? (Especially one I'm routing for??) Soooo either, this book is just really bad and undervalueing its own main characters oooor, and here's the more likely turn of events: he is actually not dead but on the other ship. Since the book didn't look like the worst book ever, I went with the second option - and waited. And waited. And waited.... Damn you you stupid AI quit talking already!!! The book went from showing so many different mediums to deliver content to basically almost only the AI talking to itself (and me doubting wether an AI could even have these kind of thoughts) so yeah. AI: blablablabla, Kady almost dead, oh not, oh almost dead, oh not yet, oh almost dead - ok she's gonna survive this is not gonna be a tragedy. And then one page (!) to reunite her with Ezra. Done....REALLY?? I think the book would have been better off just making it into a tragedy and letting them both die a heroic death. But oh well, they had to let them live for the second book... I guess...

What I did like was the side characters actually. Really loveable characters which makes it oh so sadder that none of my favourites survived. The whole Phobos virus thing was a REALLY cool idea because it gives us 3 things to fear - the frealing ship approaching us wanting to kill us, those maniacs wanting to do - eeeeh whatever they wanna do to us, and the AI going crazy potentially also murdering us. Cool. All in all a good read, interesting format and something I would recommend.