Synopsis: Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza—but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion?
Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys—an old flame from Asha's past—reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heroes will fall, and hearts will be broken.
Review: The Illuminae Files has been a well-loved series, and I understand why. The mixed media method makes these thick books quick to read through, and the story is captivating. Reading along while listening to the full cast audiobooks is definitely the best way to go. I really enjoyed Illuminae and Gemina, and I've read both of those books more than once. Obsidio mostly fell flat to me. My biggest concern was that having 2 new characters to focus on, while also giving past characters enough page time, was not going to work well. I was right. Asha and Rhys felt incredibly unnecessary, and I sometimes forgot they were even in this book. I felt like something could have happened at the end of Gemina where Kady or Hanna could have ended up on Kerenza and we could have focused on them instead of Asha.
Other than the forgettable main characters, Obsidio was too predictable. Nothing felt like it was really at stake for our main characters. I'm more familiar with Jay's books than Amie's, but Jay has a problem with not wanting to kill his main characters. That takes away a lot of tension from action based stories like this series. Gemina introduced the idea of parallel universes, and that's a cool concept, but it felt dropped after Gemina ended. Other than a few lines from Nik about saving multiple universes, that entire idea disappeared. AIDAN also had a redemption arc that I wasn't fond of.
Overall, Obsidio was just okay. This series did some interesting things and it could have ended with a bigger bang, but it didn't.
3 howls
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