The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. Across the top of the cover, black text on a white space reads “The Sequel to The New York Times Bestseller”. “The New York Times Bestseller” is highlighted in yellow. Directly under this, on the same white space, the word “Illuminae” in slightly larger black capitals. The white space looks like an uneven streak of white paint. On a larger white streak in the centre of the cover, the title “Gemina” in large black capitals. Directly underneath it, smaller black capitals reading “The Illuminae Files_02”. Lower centre left of the cover, very small black text in a circle reading “What do you believe?”. The authors’ names “Amie Kaufman” and “Jay Kristoff” are written in black capitals at the bottom of the cover in two white spaces. The background shows a black space mostly occupied by a large blue explosion. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Graphic Depictions of Blood
• Graphic Depictions of Gore
• Death of A Parent
• Death of A Friend
• Murder
• Animal Cruelty
• Death
• Violence
• Gun Violence
• Drug Use
• Death of A Child
• Medical Content
• Grief
• Genocide

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Summary:

Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.

The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.

Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.

When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station’s wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.

But relax. They’ve totally got this. They hope.

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Notes:

This is the second book in the The Illuminae Files series.

The disabled character in this book is not an MC but rather a major side character.

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

This book was nominated for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Here is a link to Kaufman’s website.

Here is a link to Kristoff’s website.

Here is a link to Lu’s website.

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Archivist Comments:

Apparently this book (and the other two in the series) are written as “a collection of documents”, like emails, camera footage, IMs etc. Quite an interesting format.

Ella, the disabled character in this book, seems to be quite loved from the reviews I’ve read. There has been criticism regarding the writing of other characters, however, as well as the fact that the romance between the leads sometimes overpowers to science fiction element. Some people also felt that the plot of the books repeated too much over the series.

I should point out, however, this book picks up “about five minutes” after the first one, so it seems the plots of each book are quite closely related anyway.

The person who submitted this series very helpfully (/lh) told me that Ella has a goldfish called Mr. Biggles II.

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