I feel entirely justified in giving Illuminae five stars, but it's left me with a bit of a conundrum because I actually loved this book...significantly more.

The only problem I had with Illuminae was that the first half of it was a little slow. Gemina did not have that problem. These books are some of the only that get my adrenaline pumping the same way an action movie can, and I love it. My boy, AIDAN, was back, and we stan. I was a little apprehensive about switching characters but I loved Nik and Hanna (maybe more than Kady and Ezra oops) and overall I just really feel like Kaufman and Kristoff were trying something with Illuminae, and now with Gemina have really figured it out and done it better.

And yeah, I know I'm technically a day late with this since I'm reading it for Kristoff-a-thon and it was the May book but... it is what it is y'all.