Illusive
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316254595 (0316254592)
Publish date: April 1st 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
This was billed on Goodreads as The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals. For the most part it delivered on that claim. The superhero elements of the story and the world building was very good. The plot was interesting, even if I do ...
Well, it is a lot like X-Men and Ocean’s Eleven at its bare bones. Oh, the plot is good. If you like action and reading about action this is your book. Me though? While I might like watching Bruce Willis blow up things on the big screen, it doesn’t really work so much in a book unless I feel...
As the blurb suggests, this was the perfect blend of Ocean’s Eleven style thievery with X-Men style characters. To me, this book felt very similar to Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson, but with slightly stronger characters. I enjoyed the criminal parts of this book, but I didn’t feel like we got a ver...
Note: I received an eARC of this title in exchange for an honest review. My thoughts and opinions were not affected because of this. Illusive by Emily Lloyd-Jones was a thrilling story. She created an intriguing futuristic, dystopian world where a vaccination caused an “unexpected side effect” in ...
With Illusive, one wishes for a bit more explanation and back story. There are so many unexplained situations that would help improve a reader’s understanding of and engagement with Ciere. More importantly, there are multiple global conflicts mentioned in passing of which a greater understanding wou...
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