Review: Gemina

Gemina by Amie Kaufman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE YEAR I PUT GIFS IN MY REVIEWS. I'M A NEW WOMAN. NEW YEAR NEW ME.

My first and foremost thought: I didn't know that Marie Lu could draw so well?!

Other thoughts:
This book was great, but Illuminae (the first book) was still better.

This book was thrilling and fun to read, but it seemed to drag on for me. I found myself trying to read smaller books in between to feel more accomplished, but all it did was rack up the "currently reading" books and leave me stressed.


The format, of course, was unique and super cool as before. In this case though, AIDAN wasn't really there, so I didn't get as much of a feeling of Love and Doom in this book. (No worries, though. There is still a lot of Doom in Gemina.) One of the main reasons the formatting was so noteworthy in Illuminae was because of AIDAN, and I feel like I got sort of gypped here.

The characters seemed to be basically the same as before but with slightly different appearances. I really don't feel like I met anyone new, and that upsets me.

Story: 3 stars
Creativity: 4 stars
Final score: 3.5 stars (rounded up before because I'm sometimes nice)

I know I'm starting to complain now, but I'll still definitely be getting the next book when it comes out.



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