Hi! Welcome to my channel. In this vlog I'm going to read Illuminae by Amie Kauffman and Jay Kristoff.
Honestly, I don't know much about this book. Only that everyone talks wonders about this trilogy.
What I know is that it's sci-fi, that it's in another planet, and that's it.
And that its edition is beautiful, from the outside and its inside. I have the hardcover edition
and this came as a surprise to me because I didn't know it was like this.
It has this kind of plastic dust jacket.
Oh, right, this is an epistolary book.
Meaning that the way its narrated is through letters or files. Not so much describing what's going on.
And I guess that's why we have these looks, front and back.
It's beautiful!
Besides when you put this on,
it has these see-through spaces to see what lies beneath
So in this section we can see this text.
Inside...
because they're archives and files and so, it has a lot of editorial design.
I'm really excited to read this book because everyone talks wonders about these books.
Specifically about the last book that came out this year
and to get to it I have to read the first 2.
Ok, I've finished the first chapter so I know a bit more what's this about.
We have an ice planet with an ilegal establishment.
And suddenly a spaceship arrives to attack the whole planet.
And we have our 2 main characters, apparently.
Who turn out to be exes, since 3 hours before this occurs.
I just had a dejá vu about this story.
These character are 17 years old, so they're telling us their planet's destruction,
as well as the drama from their relationship at the moment.
And this will be the atmosphere in these books.
Of teen characters
and a company that wants to get rid of something and acquire, I still don't know what they wanted to achieve with the attack.
But the way it starts, with an interviewer with Kady, our main female character
and with Ezra, our main male character, but apart from each other.
So we're learning the version of what happened from these 2 voices intertwining.
And that's dealed in a funny way. Suddenly the ideas complement each other, and I don't know it made me laugh.
So I'm waiting for action but also comedy in this book.
I'm going to see my boyfriend.
I read a bit more because he arrived moments after the last time I checked in with you guys.
But the point is that, 2 government spaceships rescued the survivers from the attacked planet.
The ice planet, how was it called? Kerenza.
The planet is called Kerenza.
And let's see if I can read a bit, if not, then I'll read until I get back at night before going to bed.
Hey! It's Tuesday. Yesterday my boyfriend and I watched the first episode of Mr. Robot.
That is on Amazon Prime.
It's about a hacker and how he'll try to take down society
thanks to his hacker power.
It looks like it's really good and it goes well with Illuminae.
Because our main character is also a hacker.
So I found some similarities regarding that.
I'm in page 100. I didn't read so much, they're 600 in total.
But still, is quite a fast reading because all the pages are from compiled files.
It has a lot of blank spaces like this part at the top.
Or, for example...
Things like this.
So it really is a fast read, but I haven't had much time to do so.
They were 3 ships that rescued the survivors.
And looks like there's a conspiracy, something is going on in one of the ships
thst's what Kady is trying to find out with her hacking.
Kady ended up in one ship and Ezra in another one, so they haven't seen each other after the accident,
well, the attack.
So there's where our characters and our situation are.
It's a bit doubtful the loyalty of the ships that rescued them, that are from the government.
I guess that's what we're going to find out througout the rest of the book.
I just read page 157 and I found a surprise I hadn't heard from anyone before.
They just showed us someone's file
and the name of that person is...
Laini Taylor, which is the author of "Strange the Dreamer".
And I thought it was a fun Easter egg, and wanted to share it with you.
Ok, I was reading a creepy part, and the lights went off.
How appropriate. And it's raining.
So meanwhile I'm going to use this lamp to keep reading
because I'm not going to stop reading only because I don't have light.
Wow, I don't know what just happened
I got to half of the book, page 307.
It seems like it has ended but I'm halfway through. Idon't know what else is going to happen.
This was so intense.
There were 2 threats for the ships.
And both have arrived to the ships.
And this last part I read was like, where everything collapsed
and got solved, or not, a lot of things.
I lost track of time and it's really late.
But I want to keep reading. I want to hnow what happens.
I just want to point out one part that I loved how it was solved, editorially.
Because, as you know, this is an epistolary book. And we're only seeing files and letters and recordings
So there's a battle, and the way they solved it is like this.
Those lines represent the ships' trayectories, and at the same time, everything they say inside because it's the audio recordings.
I found it a very creative approach.
Because besides following the idea of us just reading the archives
they also solved the graphic part showing us the trayectories.
I think I'll be checking up tomorrow because I have to go to sleep.
What did I say yesterday? That I was going to sleep?
Well, I'm on page 400, that's because I kept reading a while longer before going to bed
and I lost track of time again.
And I slept much later.
But I'm finding out that having Artificial Intelligence as another character is becoming one of my favorite themes.
Even more if we have chapters from its point of view, which this book does.
Because the books I've read with AI, and chapters from their point of view
are more appealing to me. I feel it's a subject a bit unexplored in books.
For the moment I'm liking that. Maybe some day I'll get sick of it.
But for now, it feels new.
This is page 400. This is what's left.
I'm in page 510.
And the AI is having some weird thoughts.
Some I'm not sure to believe.
I feel like it couldn't happen.
I don't know, I'll have to see what happens in the end.
But now I really want to see this book adapted to a movie. It's a very cinematographic script.
I don't know if they're doing a movie.
Wow, ok this news is from 2015. But it says Brad Pitt's production: Plan B Entertainment
started doing an adaptation.
Well, actually it already appears in IMDb the movie status: in production.
So it's planned. So I hope one day I'll be able to see it as a movie.
Because sometimes they get cancelled out of nowhere.
Ok, I've finished Illuminae.
And the end leaves you so hooked up, to buy the next books.
The ending is something that felt inevitable.
And I just wanted something to happen. Which in the end does happens and it didn't disappoont.
And yead, I really liked this book. I love books that take place in space.
I may not understand much of what's going on in the universe.
I think that's why I love more reading this type of books.
Because it's something I don't know.
And at least I have it in books, movies or etc.
There were things that I felt like an AI couldn't feel
because I fell like they can't feel
and this one did have some reflections that led you to believe it was feeling something.
That's the only thing I didn't buy.
But, it doesn't matter. I still loved this book.
What I really need to point out it's its whole graphic design.
I fell in love with it. It's what captured me the most.
From its cover with the blank spaces. And the hardcover that sticks to the epistolary theme with annotations.
And inside the book itself. The way it approached certain obstacles it had to describe things.
Look at this.
Can you see? It's "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.
Each time I turned the page there was a new surprise.
And that's part of the experience I loved the most.
Even the fact that the pages that are from the AI's point of vew, are differentiated by the pages' colours.
If it's on black, then it's from the AI. And if it's on white it's from a human.
Everything is so well thought.
I gave it 4 stars in Goodreads. Although for me it really was a 4.5 stars.
Thanks for joining me in my reading.
See you in the next video. Bye!
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