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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Dead. I am dead.
This book absolutely killed me and if there is not a sequel ASAP, I may riot.
In a post-apocalyptic world, Eve lives with her grandfather and to pay for his meds, she takes up fighting robots at night. After a bit of trouble at a fight, Eve and her best friend Lemon are wanted by all the local gangs. On their way home, they find an lifelike android - Ezekiel. This is when the trouble TRULY begins. Lemon, Eve, Zeke will have to set out on a crazy journey in which secrets regarding Eve's past will come to light. Oh, and Eve has super powers.
The world in the book is AMAZING. I cannot say that enough. It's like mad max and borderlands had a love child and added more robots. Kristoff's creation of slang for the characters is so natural as well. He has a gift for giving characters and worlds unique ways of talking without making me feel like I need an appendix to understand what's happening.
READ THIS BOOK NOW.
Spoilers below.
OK, so I need to say some things, but spoilers ahead. So beware.
LEMON FRESH! I love her! I understand why she kept her secrets but watching her relationship with Eve was perfect. They were the Bestest.
ZEKE! I love you. Find your Ana in the next book. I need a book in which you search out and rescue Ana and live happily ever after. I am sobbing.
ANA/EVE! I did had hints that everything was not as it appeared regarding the revelation that Eve was actually Ana, but I did not see that last twist coming.
The next book is going to be amazing! Eve + Gabriel racing to find Ana before Zeke and Lemon (I hope). There hasn't been an announcement yet, but I NEED THIS BOOK NOW.
This book absolutely killed me and if there is not a sequel ASAP, I may riot.
In a post-apocalyptic world, Eve lives with her grandfather and to pay for his meds, she takes up fighting robots at night. After a bit of trouble at a fight, Eve and her best friend Lemon are wanted by all the local gangs. On their way home, they find an lifelike android - Ezekiel. This is when the trouble TRULY begins. Lemon, Eve, Zeke will have to set out on a crazy journey in which secrets regarding Eve's past will come to light. Oh, and Eve has super powers.
The world in the book is AMAZING. I cannot say that enough. It's like mad max and borderlands had a love child and added more robots. Kristoff's creation of slang for the characters is so natural as well. He has a gift for giving characters and worlds unique ways of talking without making me feel like I need an appendix to understand what's happening.
READ THIS BOOK NOW.
Spoilers below.
Spoiler
OK, so I need to say some things, but spoilers ahead. So beware.
LEMON FRESH! I love her! I understand why she kept her secrets but watching her relationship with Eve was perfect. They were the Bestest.
ZEKE! I love you. Find your Ana in the next book. I need a book in which you search out and rescue Ana and live happily ever after. I am sobbing.
ANA/EVE! I did had hints that everything was not as it appeared regarding the revelation that Eve was actually Ana, but I did not see that last twist coming.
The next book is going to be amazing! Eve + Gabriel racing to find Ana before Zeke and Lemon (I hope). There hasn't been an announcement yet, but I NEED THIS BOOK NOW.
I loved this book! Seriously. And though I’ve mentioned before that I don’t even LIKE sci-fi, I’m totally becoming a Jay Kristoff fangirl.
The only thing I have to say about this book that’s slightly on the negative side is something that bugs me in any book when it occurs (mostly in dystopian-type novels). If you’re going to come up with a semi-post-apocalyptic world but still use the names of places or people, don’t change them up. Call it California...not Kalifornia. If the characters have access to ‘virtch’, then surely they know what it used to be called, right? Anywho...that’s me grasping at straws basically to find a flaw in this story.
I did start getting a sense of the twist regarding Lemon Fresh before it was revealed but it was uncovered so brilliantly that I was still shook.
And man oh man am I ready for the sequel!
The only thing I have to say about this book that’s slightly on the negative side is something that bugs me in any book when it occurs (mostly in dystopian-type novels). If you’re going to come up with a semi-post-apocalyptic world but still use the names of places or people, don’t change them up. Call it California...not Kalifornia. If the characters have access to ‘virtch’, then surely they know what it used to be called, right? Anywho...that’s me grasping at straws basically to find a flaw in this story.
I did start getting a sense of the twist regarding Lemon Fresh before it was revealed but it was uncovered so brilliantly that I was still shook.
And man oh man am I ready for the sequel!
adventurous
dark
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Okay. So for the first half of Lifelike I was sitting on a solid 4 stars, despite the numerous things I didn't like (I'll get to it in a minute!). So here are my likes:
LIKES!
1. The Wardome, and Eve being an awesome mechanic.
2. Cricket and Lemon. Friggin awesome!
3. The bio augmentation, including memdrive and optics. I do like me some cyborg!
4. The fast paced action in the beginning.
So to summarise, it was engaging, fast paced, and had a pretty neat cast of characters. There was all this intro stuff, set up, etc., so I was expecting the second half of the novel to just blow my mind!
Unfortunately the characters didn't show any growth, the plot was quite frankly boring, and I predicted a lot of stuff, including the big twist at the end. Really, it felt like reading an amalgamation of about 20 different popular YA novels, smooshed into something that Kristoff thought would sell well. And it probably will! But for big readers like me, it just didn't live up to expectations.
Because I'm annoyed that I finished reading this book, I'm exhausted, and have had a pretty darn emotional day, I'm just gonna go ahead and dot point the stuff I didn't like.
DISLIKES!
1. The writing style. Sorry Mr Kristoff, it's not for me, and I tried Nevernight too!
2. The slang. OH GOD THE SLANG!!!
3. Predictability.
4. The romance. Seriously, if either character had anything going for them and had been built up properly in any way, I would have at least been semi-invested.
5. Tropes galore.
6. Very unoriginal.
7. ZERO character growth, for literally every single character. Even the ones I liked. EVEN LEMON AND CRICKET!
8. The Preacher. Anyone else seeing Terminator here?
9. The complete lack of voice change between characters. Seriously, they all read the same. All. Of. Them.
10. The ending. Really? REALLY??!!
And the list continues! but I'm gonna stop here because ten is a nice number. I like ten. And I'm bored and annoyed again just thinking about this book.
Age: 12+, more for teens than adults for sure
Warnings: A bit o killing. An intimated sex scene but it's all fade to black after some general kissing. And Lemon looking at android boy parts, jut for kicks.
LIKES!
1. The Wardome, and Eve being an awesome mechanic.
2. Cricket and Lemon. Friggin awesome!
3. The bio augmentation, including memdrive and optics. I do like me some cyborg!
4. The fast paced action in the beginning.
So to summarise, it was engaging, fast paced, and had a pretty neat cast of characters. There was all this intro stuff, set up, etc., so I was expecting the second half of the novel to just blow my mind!
Unfortunately the characters didn't show any growth, the plot was quite frankly boring, and I predicted a lot of stuff, including the big twist at the end. Really, it felt like reading an amalgamation of about 20 different popular YA novels, smooshed into something that Kristoff thought would sell well. And it probably will! But for big readers like me, it just didn't live up to expectations.
Because I'm annoyed that I finished reading this book, I'm exhausted, and have had a pretty darn emotional day, I'm just gonna go ahead and dot point the stuff I didn't like.
DISLIKES!
1. The writing style. Sorry Mr Kristoff, it's not for me, and I tried Nevernight too!
2. The slang. OH GOD THE SLANG!!!
3. Predictability.
4. The romance. Seriously, if either character had anything going for them and had been built up properly in any way, I would have at least been semi-invested.
5. Tropes galore.
6. Very unoriginal.
7. ZERO character growth, for literally every single character. Even the ones I liked. EVEN LEMON AND CRICKET!
8. The Preacher. Anyone else seeing Terminator here?
9. The complete lack of voice change between characters. Seriously, they all read the same. All. Of. Them.
10. The ending. Really? REALLY??!!
Spoiler
Because people lie to you, you're gonna go join the baddies? Listen up sweetheart, but that's life. And you're being a friggin baby.And the list continues! but I'm gonna stop here because ten is a nice number. I like ten. And I'm bored and annoyed again just thinking about this book.
Age: 12+, more for teens than adults for sure
Warnings: A bit o killing. An intimated sex scene but it's all fade to black after some general kissing. And Lemon looking at android boy parts, jut for kicks.
Review can be found on *Milky Way of Books*
When you know that the author is a mastermind of twisting your emotions and create amazing worlds in his books, you come back for more like a chocolate addict.
That's what happened with LIFEL1K3. I knew that this book was going to have some serious revelations, but I didn't expect the ending!
But let's go back; Eve lives with her Grandpa who is sick her best friend is named Lemon Fresh and she has an amazing cyborg dog which despite being like a metal skeleton with fur, he is an absolute cinnamon roll. There's also Kricket the little robot who also is hilarious as hell.
And when Eve loses control on a huge robot fight and accidentally fries every circuit, strange enemies will appear, a boy named Ezekiel will arrive and try to help her and from there my dear friends comes the pitch with which Jay Kristoff gained the publication of the book. Because seriously, this action-packed adventure, through bio-engineered whales, Mad-Max-Fury wild desert storms and cities balanced on old ruins is not going to be forgotten soon.
And honestly if not a saga of movies I demand at least an anime or a graphic novel!
The world-building, the robots, the Lifelike's the fighting, the PREACHER! Even his murderous bot-dogs were amazing!
And the ending? Or maybe the final chapters that led to the ending? Well, as always Jay Kristoff knows how to gut my heart happily into tiny pieces while smiling gleefully. Because he knows that I know that I am going to read anything he writes! And I love his stories for it!
When you know that the author is a mastermind of twisting your emotions and create amazing worlds in his books, you come back for more like a chocolate addict.
That's what happened with LIFEL1K3. I knew that this book was going to have some serious revelations, but I didn't expect the ending!
But let's go back; Eve lives with her Grandpa who is sick her best friend is named Lemon Fresh and she has an amazing cyborg dog which despite being like a metal skeleton with fur, he is an absolute cinnamon roll. There's also Kricket the little robot who also is hilarious as hell.
And when Eve loses control on a huge robot fight and accidentally fries every circuit, strange enemies will appear, a boy named Ezekiel will arrive and try to help her and from there my dear friends comes the pitch with which Jay Kristoff gained the publication of the book. Because seriously, this action-packed adventure, through bio-engineered whales, Mad-Max-Fury wild desert storms and cities balanced on old ruins is not going to be forgotten soon.
And honestly if not a saga of movies I demand at least an anime or a graphic novel!
The world-building, the robots, the Lifelike's the fighting, the PREACHER! Even his murderous bot-dogs were amazing!
And the ending? Or maybe the final chapters that led to the ending? Well, as always Jay Kristoff knows how to gut my heart happily into tiny pieces while smiling gleefully. Because he knows that I know that I am going to read anything he writes! And I love his stories for it!
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Writing is a lot tighter and less reliant on purple-prose than the author's first trilogy (which I appreciated), but the pacing of this book was weirdly fast. Premise was interesting at first, but "insta-love" happened about 30 pages in and I lost interest. Maybe I'm just too old for this shit now, but the "lust at first sight" with teenage protagonists bores me. The tone of the book substantially shifts in the first 2 parts from engaging dystopia to angsty-YA romance with a dash of R-rated violence to substitute for character development. I speed read the second half and will skip the others in the series.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3.5 stars. This was a reasonably engaging new series, with a few surprises along the way. I just didn’t like the lead, Eve, very much. By I’ll likely continue this series.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes