"What did you do this weekend Brittanie?" 
 "I read" 
 "All weekend?" 
 That's right! All fucking weekend! 
 I spent all day Saturday reading Illuminae and than ran to the bookstore Sunday to read the sequel. This hasn't happened to me in a long time, I have gotten much better at balancing my reading life and the rest of my life but Illuminae just drew me in and wouldn't let me go. This was also the first book I had ever read from both Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, that will soon be rectified because of this series 
 I read a lot of genres including science fiction but I easily admit that I don't fall in love with a lot of science fiction. It's just hard for me to get pulled in, in comparison to other genres. Illuminae has me craving more science fiction and I fear it'll never be enough. 
 I alternated between reading the book and listening to the audio. The audio for Illuminae is the best I've ever listened to and I would have continued listening if not for the format of these books. The audio couldn't translate the pictures and diagrams in the series and I just loved looking at all the illustrations. The format for this book blew me out of the water, I think there was a lot of ways you could screw up with the formatting of this series and yet Kaufman/Kristoff presentation was flawless. 
 The characters were fabulous. The story was amazing. The presentation was awe-inspiring and I couldn't wait another day for book two. 
 What I also really liked about this story, something that I think Kaufman/Kristoff did really well, was even though a lot of people die I mourned all of them. There's a 6 page casualty list and even though you don't know any of these characters I felt the terrible loss just seeing all those names. That is something this format did really well. Just hearing that you lost a couple thousand people kind of lets you turn those lives into numbers but seeing all those names on all those pages and those tiny pictures made me so sad. 
 Bravo Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff and the anyone else who helped put this book together. Illuminae feels like a very deliberate piece of art and it might just be a masterpiece of a book.