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Lifel1k3
by Jay Kristoff
Giving this one a solid 4 Stars, which is actually a little surprising to myself because about 50-70 pages out, I was dead set on giving it 3.5.
Reason being, I was on the struggle bus most of the way through. It could have been circumstantial, but though this novel is riddled with heart-pounding action, it moves a little slow. The progression of plot sort of happened all at once and while that’s okay, if done right, it can be a little disheartening until that point of climax/resolution. In this case, we’re left with a bit of a cliff-hanger.
I certainly wasn’t expecting that ending.
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So let’s hit the highlights:
Post-apocalyptic America has been ravaged by war. Logika, automata, and all other manner of robotic life roam the earth. It’s hotter than a blue flame out there and lit to the extreme with radiation. It’s sort of a Mad Max meets Hunger Games meets the Wild West sort of get-up. There’s plenty of action, a lot of blood, an over abundance of sass, and just a sprinkling of romance.
The characters in this book were particularly likeable. You’ve got Eve, the MC, a girl with one eye and a super confusing past. She’s rough and tumble, seriously brave, and also a little reckless.
Lemon Fresh, my main squeeze 🍋 (if you’ll pardon the pun) is all the sass you’ll ever need wrapped up into a red-haired-freckled-orphan-kid. She’s fiercely loyal and has a bit of a gray-area past.
Ezekiel of course is the eye-candy of this book, so to speak. A hopeless romantic lifelike with a penchant for always saying something 200% cheesy. Like most of the others in this book, his secrets help spin the tragic backstory ™︎ that is this book.
Cricket 😭 The cutest “don’t you call me little” bot you ever did see. Again, so loyal, and willing to do just about anything for Eve. He adds all the sarcasm and “man-parts” you’ll need in this book.
Everyone else is pretty much secondary to those four, but equally important to the story. Unfortunately, this book contains a lot of twists and turns and I don’t want to give anything away, so I’m not going to write much more.
My only other critique is that the slang in this book can be a little overwhelming. None of it is ever truly explained, so you sort of just have to use context clues. You do that, and it’ll be fizzy. True cert!
Reason being, I was on the struggle bus most of the way through. It could have been circumstantial, but though this novel is riddled with heart-pounding action, it moves a little slow. The progression of plot sort of happened all at once and while that’s okay, if done right, it can be a little disheartening until that point of climax/resolution. In this case, we’re left with a bit of a cliff-hanger.
I certainly wasn’t expecting that ending.
•
So let’s hit the highlights:
Post-apocalyptic America has been ravaged by war. Logika, automata, and all other manner of robotic life roam the earth. It’s hotter than a blue flame out there and lit to the extreme with radiation. It’s sort of a Mad Max meets Hunger Games meets the Wild West sort of get-up. There’s plenty of action, a lot of blood, an over abundance of sass, and just a sprinkling of romance.
The characters in this book were particularly likeable. You’ve got Eve, the MC, a girl with one eye and a super confusing past. She’s rough and tumble, seriously brave, and also a little reckless.
Lemon Fresh, my main squeeze 🍋 (if you’ll pardon the pun) is all the sass you’ll ever need wrapped up into a red-haired-freckled-orphan-kid. She’s fiercely loyal and has a bit of a gray-area past.
Ezekiel of course is the eye-candy of this book, so to speak. A hopeless romantic lifelike with a penchant for always saying something 200% cheesy. Like most of the others in this book, his secrets help spin the tragic backstory ™︎ that is this book.
Cricket 😭 The cutest “don’t you call me little” bot you ever did see. Again, so loyal, and willing to do just about anything for Eve. He adds all the sarcasm and “man-parts” you’ll need in this book.
Everyone else is pretty much secondary to those four, but equally important to the story. Unfortunately, this book contains a lot of twists and turns and I don’t want to give anything away, so I’m not going to write much more.
My only other critique is that the slang in this book can be a little overwhelming. None of it is ever truly explained, so you sort of just have to use context clues. You do that, and it’ll be fizzy. True cert!