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 Review: After reading Illuminae, I was so excited. I was so damn excited that I asked my dad to drive me to a bookstore immediately to get Gemina. Though, after reading Gemina myself, I felt something was off. I liked it, but not as much as Illuminae. 
 I got really familiarized with the format and it was really fun to read it again, but I thought that it wasn't as fun like it was with the first book. Although it was a quick read for a 672-page book, the writing seemed repetitive and unconvincing. I was expecting to love this book more that the first one, but it started out just as confusing as it ended. 
 I've been considering it again and again if I loved the plot in Illuminae more or this book more. I wasn't really sure. Now I've made my decision and it's Gemina. This book offered really enjoyable fighting and kickass scenes. I enjoyed seeing Hanna giving her all to protect herself. I truly believed that this book live up to its potential and it was so much better to see how twisting and suspenseful the plot was around Heimdall Station as well as the addition of betrayal and unexpected killings. Despite that, I wouldn't say it was mind-blowing, the universes that were introduced. It was confusing, I am not a fan of two universes colliding or even time-travelling, that I would always find it to be a plot hole. 
 In this particular book, I loved the characters so so so much. They are so much more hilarious than the first book and even more adoring. Hanna was so graceful, brave, and strong. She took things a little more serious and wasn't that funny, but she was obviously strong and especially not afraid to do things that would save her own life. Nik was ridiculously funny and of course joked more around his cousin Ella than Hanna. He wasn't a serious character, but he knew what was important and did not act like an idiot about it. 
 Overall: I thought that this book was a fun one, but not as much as the first book. Of course, it was from a different point of view from Illuminae so we are all introduced once again to a new thing, but it wasn't exactly that. It was still in the same universe and just as fun. The two main characters are diverse and so beautiful in their own way and I'd love to see more of them in the third book.