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Simply put, this book rocked my little world. Here are a few reasons why... (INCLUDES COLORFUL LANGUAGE)
1. It's unique. The whole book is a collection of survellance, conversations, IMs, and letters collected to describe an incident.
2. The language cracked my shit up. Even though it's blacked out, the curses and crude threats really made me laugh.
3. The Audiobooks is a full cast with sound effecrs.. pew pew
4. It reminded me of Firefly
5. I like how Katie is smart, capable, sarcastic, and takes ...more
1. It's unique. The whole book is a collection of survellance, conversations, IMs, and letters collected to describe an incident.
2. The language cracked my shit up. Even though it's blacked out, the curses and crude threats really made me laugh.
3. The Audiobooks is a full cast with sound effecrs.. pew pew
4. It reminded me of Firefly
5. I like how Katie is smart, capable, sarcastic, and takes ...more
Considering the more experimental layout of the book, I was interested to see how they would carry this off in audiobook format. Surprisingly it comes off well: they use certain sound effect tricks (I'm not fluent enough in such things to go into more detail) to give it nuances that the book doesn't have, so it still is a satisfying story. I will admit I did pull a copy of the book off the shelf to look at the schematics of the ships, but it was more out of curiosity than necessity. The ensemble
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This is a tough competitor with "I'll Give You the Sun" for my favorite book of 2015. I LOVED every minute of it. I love the mixed media component, I love the multiple points of view, and I love that I had to literally put the book down and take a break after it broke my heart about 3/4ths of the way through. If it weren't for that moment, I probably would have read it in a single day because of the way it drew me in. SO GOOD!!
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Epic . . .that describes this book. It is a visual feast, with each chapter representing a different kind of text: emails, text messages, audio, video transcripts, logs and records. The reader pieces together the mystery of why the Artificial Intelligence super-computer named, Aiden, has destroyed on the of the ships in the fleet he is supposed to protect, killing thousands of humans. It is the future, the earth has been destroyed, and humanity lives in space on ships. A multibillion dollar comp
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Really not a good book. Difficult to plow through the format - who cares about 8 pages of names? Did the author just go to the phone book and copy and paste - with pictures? This book was about Kady & Ezra & the aftermath of their planet being bombed by a megacorporation. They have to survive and stop a plague caused by a bioweapon. Interviews, e-mails, etc is the format with all of the crude language blacked out. The audio did not improve the story line, tho it was easier to follow.
Jan 23, 2016
Alyssa
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