![]() With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heros will fall, and hearts will be broken. ![]() When Rhys-an old flame from Asha's past-reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. 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. Like the two books prior, it is set above a spacecraft, this time the Mao. I got a bit bored with ALL of the surveillance summaries but other than that, it was amazing Obsidio by Amie Kau. ![]() 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, Obsidio is the last and currently the final installment of the Illuminae series. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the at. ![]() ![]() From bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes the exciting finale in the trilogy that broke the mold and has been called stylistically mesmerizing and out-of-this-world-awesome. Read 9,504 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]()
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