strangethedreamer 's review for:

Lifel1k3 by Jay Kristoff

2.0

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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.