 Hey guys, it's Tilly and today I am here doing my book talk slash review of Gemina by Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff and I loved this book so I'm going to review it hardcore and hope that you guys will love it as well. As always like all the reviews on my channel this is my honest opinion on these books totally unaffected by publishers authors and for my need to please you guys so yeah let's just get straight into it and let me talk about how amazing this book was. So this is the amazing fantastic and gorgeous cover of Gemina which is the second book in the Illuminae files. The first one is called Illuminae and it just has a beautiful like orangey pink cover that you guys should know about because it is an amazing series. So if you guys like sci-fi you should have read this and if you haven't you have to read this. These books are so action packed and has the perfect mix of humor and horror to just keep you guys turning the page. It is actually despite its huge looking size a really quick read because the format in these books is a little different to your standard novel. It's not told from any normal perspective it is told through different forms of conversation so like a messenger chat or surveillance footage and so on. It is actually really creative like at times I can see why some people would find it annoying but I myself enjoyed it because I got through it really really quickly. At one point I actually like ripped a page in half because in my haste to know what happens I was dangerous and reckless and it just ripped and I felt like crying but I still had to know so I just kept on turning the page. Now that I'm right here there is a ripped darling. So Gemina actually has a huge 4.62 average writing on Goodreads. That's our five so it's pretty amazing and if you guys still are unsure on whether or not to read this book well it actually helps me to get out of my reading slump. I haven't been reading books for like the last four months so I did my December TBR video where I asked you guys to pretty much vote for what books I should read and Gemina I think got the second highest amount of votes but at the time it had the highest so I decided to read that one and honestly I think I finished this within 24 hours. I devoured this book, I stayed up late for this book and I was pretty much just like shrieking at how amazing this was. There are plot twists and crazy storylines and amazingness just awesome through it the entire time. See I can't even talk when it comes to this book because I'm so filled with wonder and awe at the writing in this. It's beautiful, it's big and this is my second copy because I knew I would love this book so much that I actually bought in hardcover but I can't show you guys that because it's actually like the foundation of my book Christmas tree so you know we can't exactly pull that down. So you have Hannah who is the main female protagonist. You will love her, she kicks ass, she is funny and smart and you know amazing, beautiful, outstanding. Nick is like part of a huge crime family and he's covered in tattoos of all many different things and he has been in jail and he now is on the same ship as Hannah and they are in communications mostly because Nick sells a sort of drug and Hannah sometimes buys it and so they are thrown together once the ship has pretty much been commandeered by these really bad people and they are the only two people that weren't captured. So these two are pretty much trying to fight off these like evil people and at the same time there is a creepy alien also invading the ship so don't only do you have to save their own backs from these evil people trying to shoot them and kill them without even thinking twice about it but also these aliens that will kill them and devour them inside out. Delicious. Oh and not to mention they are the only people who can save the Hypatia which is the ship that is struggling to survive from the Illuminae book the first one and yeah it is, it's crazy like if that doesn't make you guys believe how action-packed it is I don't know what will. My last hope to get you guys to read this book is me desperately pleading, read Gemina, read Illuminae, if you guys like sci-fi, if you guys even like fantasy you will love this just do it, do it for me please and then we can talk about how amazing it is and we'll all be happy. It has been all I can think about now for the last two weeks I have read two more books since Gemina and still none of them compare, nothing compares. It is pretty much one of my favorite books of 2016 so if you guys are looking for a sign this is it, read it, you will enjoy it, you'll be happy, great, it is amazing. Gemina Illuminae files number two by Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristof get amongst it and love it. Five star rating from me, I'll leave my link to my Goodreads review as well, it's pretty much just everything I've said here but hey if it convinces you I'm happy with that.