Book Review #732 - Obsidio (The Illuminae Files #3) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

 

Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza—but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion?

Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys—an old flame from Asha's past—reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heroes will fall, and hearts will be broken.

 

 

My Rating: 8/10

 

 

This is the third and final book in the Illuminae Files series and is the sequel to Illuminae and Gemina.

 

This book follows the same method in joining the characters we already know in Kady, Ezra, Hanna and Nik whilst also introducing us to new characters in Asha and Rhys.

 

I felt like we spent too much time with already established characters and not enough with the new ones causing Asha and Rhys to feel a little under developed.

 

The book was as fast paced and action packed as the previous two and struggled to put it down throughout.

 

I loved that AIDAN played a larger role than he did in Gemina as I find him the most fascinating aspect of this entire trilogy.

 

Whilst I found I didn't like this book as much as the previous two, I still thought it was a really solid and satisfying end to a remarkable series.

 

I will be attending Jay Kristoff's Likel1k3 book tour next week so look out for my post sharing my pictures of my signed books in this series!