Obsidio by Amie Kaufman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Category: Young Adult
Genre: Space Opera, Sci-fi
Content: Strong Language, Blacked out curse words, Talk of teens sharing bunks, Mass killings including children.

 
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.

This is the last installment of the Illuminae Files and I enjoyed it almost as much as the first two books, but not quite. It didn't immediately draw me into the story the way the other two books did and I missed the monster aspect that those books had as well. The monsters are of a different sort here. This book was pretty dark at times with a couple of mass killings, children included. Of course there is no detail given, but nevertheless it is dark. But those are real world horrors that really and truly are more monstrous than Zombies and Aliens.

There were a couple of things that I found mildly annoying in the first two books that felt even more annoying in this one. The fact that everyone had practically the same personality and the blacked out curse words are perfect examples. It seemed like there were twice as many of those blacked out curse words this time around. It annoyed me to have to have to read around them. Just leave them out. The only other complaint I have about this book is that everything was wrapped up a little too neatly for me.

I've enjoyed this series with its interesting format and gorgeous pages. It's unlike anything else I've read. I enjoyed revisiting Ezra and Kady, and AIDAN the most. Just like the last book, I thought Hannah and Nik were ok, but not my favorites. Ella was less impressive here, but I still really liked her, and she had her moments in this book. The new characters that were added for this book were good. I think I liked them better than Hannah and Nik.

As usual the authors managed to trick me a couple of times with their plot twists, but not with every one of them. There wasn't really any real aha moment for me like with the first two books, but it was still very enjoyable. Overall this was a fun space opera trilogy.



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