Backlist Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by The Reading Faery which is dedicated to sharing backlist books that have been on your TBR for too long. Every Friday, you talk about a backlist book (any book published the previous year or earlier) that you're excited to read and why you want to read it. If you participate, please comment on my post so that I can check out your post!
by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Publication date: October 20, 2015
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Synopsis:
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.
The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.
But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again.
BRIEFING NOTE: Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.
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Why I want to read it:
I'm not a big fan of sci-fi. So for a long time, I wasn't interested in reading this one. That being said, I enjoyed Kaufman's other sci-fi series, so I still added it to Goodreads, and it's been sitting on my to-read list for far too long, but it wasn't until recently that I was finally convinced to actually give it a try. I just keep seeing it around bookstagram, everyone seems to have loved it, and I've heard from others who doesn't love sci-fi that they enjoyed it anyway, so now I've gotten excited to read it.
Let's chat! What backlist books have been on your TBR for far too long? Let me know in the comments!
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