Gemina - Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman | Began reading Dec 17 2017
Page Count: 138/659Synopsis: Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.
When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station's wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.
But relax. They've totally got this. They hope.
Current Opinion: My relationship with Gemina has been rocky. The first book in this series was an instant favorite for me, and a book that has been at the top of my recommendations list for literally everyone who's ever asked for a recommendation. So much so, that I preordered this book and entered a raffle for my name to be used as one of the victims in the sequel (the one I'm reading right now). I was ecstatic to continue to narrative. When I found out they were switching MC's, at first I was a little disappointed, but then I decided to think more positively. More people to love! More of the universe to explore! I was prepared. It came in the mail in October, but I was too worried about being let down to start it until a few weeks ago.
Immediately, the two main characters were not as instantaneously loved as the two in Illuminae. Don't get me wrong: I still like them very much, but I just don't feel as much as an attachment to them as I did to Kady and Ezra. I'm not desperate to see ore interaction between the two. I'm not begging for their survival yet.
That being said, shit just began to go down. Things are happening, people are dying. And, there's more intrigue with this one. A gang is on board Heimdall (Nik's family) and this one seems like it's going to be more about hiding and fighting back than running away. There's so much story left, that I feel like anything I say now could be completely disregarded and/or proved completely false by the end of the book. I still have a long way to go with Gemina, and I am enjoying the book as a whole so far, it just has to grow a little more for it to catch up with its predecessor.
Favorite Quote: "It didn't need to be this way. They were the words playing through my head through the whole thing. Likes some old media disk stuck on an infinite loop" - page 108
Have you read it yet? Let me know what you thought in the comments!
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