YA
Fiction
E/A
Kaufman, Amie and Jay Kristoff. Illuminae: The Illuminae Files_01. Knopf, 2015.
608p. 978-0-533-49911-7. 18.99.
The
day that Kady dumps Ezra – their whole world falls apart. Their remote mining
colony, Kerenza, is attacked by a warship, the Lincoln, which is owned by a rival corporation—BeiTech
Industries. Kady and Ezra escape with
their lives to end up on two different ships.
Kady and her mother are on the Hypatia,
the scientific exploration vessel, while Ezra is on the battlecarrier Alexander and is later conscripted by
the United Terran Authority, as a pilot for their Cyclone fighter crafts. The Lincoln is relentlessly pursuing them, and it’s
only a matter of time before it catches up to them. Meanwhile, a deadly and highly contagious plague
breaks out, and their artificial intelligence, AIDAN, seems to have gone mad
and turned against them. When Kady
realizes that Ezra is stuck onboard the Alexander the ship where the virus is
getting out of control, (even though she swore she never wanted to see or talk
to him again) she risks everything to go and save him. A great sci-fi thriller illustrated
and told as a dossier of memoranda, reports, emails, journal entries,
intercepted messages and other “classified” documents. Camille Campos, YA Librarian, LAPL, Angeles
Mesa Branch Library
