Gemina

An action-packed thriller that clearly wants to be part of a blockbuster teen action-movie franchise, and I can absolutely see that happening. The main weakness of Gemina, as was with Illuminae, was the horrendously annoying opening character scenes - I actually recommended Illuminae to someone on Tumblr last week and she said she had read the opening and tossed it aside. I know these are YA, and therefore I'm not the primary target audience, but I just wanted to slap the crap out of her. (Fortunately, the plot kicks in quickly, so there's only a fairly brief Window of Annoyance.) Also, all the sassy one-liners got to be a bit much. Am I being overly picky? I really did enjoy both these books a lot. They are not destined to go down in the annals of Great Science Fiction of the Twenty First Century, but they were fun, the reading equivalents of popcorn movies, and fully satisfied my inner seventeen-year-old guy.