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sweetofspring's review against another edition
5.0
I LOVED this book. It was intriguing, and the characters were very real. I would definitely recommend this book to my students.
breezy610's review against another edition
5.0
this was a pretty good book. I really enjoy Daisy and her adventure with the drug revive.
groovyjenni's review against another edition
4.0
This was a very interesting book as it was taking the ideas of life and death and making it a grey area. Our protagonist is pulled in many different ways as she balances what is right and wrong in regards to the drug Revive. It was a fast paced book that had little lulls in it. I don’t know how I didn’t get through the book sooner. I’m blaming it on my recent marriage!!
katykelly's review against another edition
4.0
Read this in a day. Great premise, intriguing. Well written and gripping, nice love story and sad in the right places. Preferred her debut Forgotten, but another original work.
buttonbloosoms's review against another edition
I only read this all the way through to see if it was possible that the main character could get even stupider as the book went on. It's possible...she does smh.
rjdenney's review against another edition
1.0
This was more of a romance than a sci-fi novel.
I did not like it. The main character got on my
nerves and I just couldn't hang so I skimmed the last
200 pages lol I still wouldn't have liked the ending.
Why do most YA book end with kissing? WTF.
I did not like it. The main character got on my
nerves and I just couldn't hang so I skimmed the last
200 pages lol I still wouldn't have liked the ending.
Why do most YA book end with kissing? WTF.
annuhfloor's review against another edition
4.0
Cried a lot. Amazing friendship , didnt love the romance that much
rtemple's review against another edition
4.0
This is the only non-zombie zombie book I've read. For the record.
It's taken me a little while to capture what I really want to say about this story -- it's more than just 'I really liked it'. While I did like it, very much, I wanted to point out several things this author achieves besides writing a captivating story.
A - Due to the nature of the secret-drug Revive, the agency calls the man in charge 'God'. The agents are thus denoted as 'Disciples'. Even as the story is told through a young woman's point of view, there is a definite symbology (a word I just created) to religion. She's lived this kind of life and taken for granted everything she's been told as the truth and nothing but the truth. The perfect alignment of circumstances - she begins to ask her own questions, and to see the grey areas of places she knew as Black or White.
I particularly liked this, and perhaps it is my own imagination, but it's a sly way for Cat Patrick to have Daisy identify with people coming of age, coming to realize they have to form their own thoughts and opinions around heavy issues - Life, Death, 'Religion' (the secret government agency she's with) and other Adults (when you realize, just because they are older, does NOT mean they are right).
B - Healthy detachment. Hear me out - a love story consists of person meeting person, person needing person, person doing everything possible to be with person, no matter the obstacle. Cute, right? Sometimes. In this case, Daisy is able to keep her love-interest at a healthy arms-distance, even through very difficult times. Maybe this is because she's used to just up and leaving? Maybe this is because there are more serious issues at hand? (MORE serious than a YA love interest?! Gasp, say it isn't so! BUT IT IS!) My point is, while I sat and rooted for this young couple, I was almost proud of Daisy's ability to separate when necessary, to have patience and believe in things will work out. To give the other person room to Breathe and sort his crap out. *
*Having said all this, there are times when they move mountains to be together. Thumbs up for that!
It's taken me a little while to capture what I really want to say about this story -- it's more than just 'I really liked it'. While I did like it, very much, I wanted to point out several things this author achieves besides writing a captivating story.
A - Due to the nature of the secret-drug Revive, the agency calls the man in charge 'God'. The agents are thus denoted as 'Disciples'. Even as the story is told through a young woman's point of view, there is a definite symbology (a word I just created) to religion. She's lived this kind of life and taken for granted everything she's been told as the truth and nothing but the truth. The perfect alignment of circumstances - she begins to ask her own questions, and to see the grey areas of places she knew as Black or White.
I particularly liked this, and perhaps it is my own imagination, but it's a sly way for Cat Patrick to have Daisy identify with people coming of age, coming to realize they have to form their own thoughts and opinions around heavy issues - Life, Death, 'Religion' (the secret government agency she's with) and other Adults (when you realize, just because they are older, does NOT mean they are right).
B - Healthy detachment. Hear me out - a love story consists of person meeting person, person needing person, person doing everything possible to be with person, no matter the obstacle. Cute, right? Sometimes. In this case, Daisy is able to keep her love-interest at a healthy arms-distance, even through very difficult times. Maybe this is because she's used to just up and leaving? Maybe this is because there are more serious issues at hand? (MORE serious than a YA love interest?! Gasp, say it isn't so! BUT IT IS!) My point is, while I sat and rooted for this young couple, I was almost proud of Daisy's ability to separate when necessary, to have patience and believe in things will work out. To give the other person room to Breathe and sort his crap out. *
*Having said all this, there are times when they move mountains to be together. Thumbs up for that!
strangertrails's review against another edition
2.0
The only reason I ended up reading this book is because I hadn’t finished any other book since Fahrenheit. I started like five different books but never finished any of them, so I then decided I needed something I knew would be quick.
Let me tell you that I did not enjoy the writing of this book. I felt that the beginning was rather slow and the writer paid attention to little details that I thought were pointless. Not that Cat Patrick can’t do that... I mean, she is the author, and this is her story. But it sounded childish to me. I felt like Patrick could have elaborated, or dug deeper into the bigger, more emotional parts of the story. This book had a lot of potential.
That’s really it, though. I mean, this one didn’t do too much for me, personally. It was given to me by one i my friends for Christmas a few years ago because she said she though it sounded like Delirium by Lauren Oliver, which she knew I really liked. But this one, I didn’t like as much. Still grateful to have it in my bookshelf, though!
Let me tell you that I did not enjoy the writing of this book. I felt that the beginning was rather slow and the writer paid attention to little details that I thought were pointless. Not that Cat Patrick can’t do that... I mean, she is the author, and this is her story. But it sounded childish to me. I felt like Patrick could have elaborated, or dug deeper into the bigger, more emotional parts of the story. This book had a lot of potential.
That’s really it, though. I mean, this one didn’t do too much for me, personally. It was given to me by one i my friends for Christmas a few years ago because she said she though it sounded like Delirium by Lauren Oliver, which she knew I really liked. But this one, I didn’t like as much. Still grateful to have it in my bookshelf, though!