The mystery of Eve’s life (and death?). Right from the start of the book, we know that something violent happened to Eve’s family, but we soon learn that she doesn’t quite remember all the details.
Jay Kristoff once again does what he does best: totally messes with your head. With her best friend Lemon Fresh and her robotic conscience, Cricket, in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, infiltrate towering megacities and scour the graveyard of humanity’s greatest folly to save the ones Eve loves, and learn the dark secrets of her past.Įven if those secrets were better off staying buried. If she’s ever had a worse day, Eve can’t remember it.īut when Eve discovers the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. To top it off, she’s discovered she can destroy electronics with the power of her mind, and the puritanical Brotherhood are building a coffin her size.
The robot gladiator she’s just spent six months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her Grandpa from the grave was the fistful of credits she just lost to the bookies. On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap.Įve isn’t looking for secrets-she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. My content rating: YA (Violence, Sex is implied but not shown) Lifelike is available at major bookstores.Īston Higgins is a design student from Melbourne.Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on May 29, 2018 That being said, I did find some of the slang and terminology used in the world-building was actually pulling me out of the story, as opposed to immersing me in it.įans of dystopian fiction and compelling characters will dive into the following two books in this trilogy. However, I never felt the characters were being overshadowed by the action, more that the action was being driven by the characters. His way of describing action scenes is entertaining and easy to visualise, and the characters all have distinct personalities with very human struggles. We see Kristoff explore how difference can be used to divide people and how humans struggle to acknowledge their past without letting it define their future. Lifelike’s strength is its ability to tackle the theme of what it means to be human. Instead, the New York Times bestselling author keeps your curiosity going throughout the story, sharing the tale of a Romeo and Juliest-esque come X-Men saga about a girl called Evie and an android named Ezekial. Melbourne-based writer Jay Kristoff has such an organic way of slowly revealing information without it feeling like a clunky info dump. Lifelike (stylised as LIFEL1K3) is an action-packed, sci-fi dystopian story that will keep young adults hooked at every turn. The first book in a young adults trilogy, its strength lies in its exploration of what it means to be human.
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