LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff Published by Random House Children's Books on May 29, 2018
Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, General, Action & Adventure, Romance
Pages: 416
Format: eARC
Source: Netgalley
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From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.
On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap.
Eve isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. 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. 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. If she’s ever had a worse day, Eve can’t remember it.
But when Eve discovers the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. 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.
Even if those secrets were better off staying buried.
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Why Did I Read?
I love Jay Kristoff! Love his writing and his stories despite his tendency to always want to break reader’s hearts!
My Thoughts:
This is just my sort of thing! AI, nonstop space adventure, secret history, flashbacks, twists and surprising reveals: I was enraptured from the get go! The lifelikes are so complex! What/who exactly are they and all the gray morality questions that come up around them. Are they people? Do they have feelings? How should they be treated? It reminded me of I, Robot due to the three laws that they have to live by and some of the robot/human questions raised in the movie. (I also loved that movie.)
The cast of characters is fantastic: Lemon Fresh is so quirky and fun and a really good complement to Eve and I really enjoyed their friendship! Cricket was the BEST and the whole group was just so great. I think at one point reading this book I thought to myself “huh, this is all rather light hearted for Jay”. Well, I just had to wait for it apparently because the ending left my jaw hanging and thinking welp, just ignore everything I thought about it being light hearted!
Lifel1k3 is packed with action, adventure and jaw dropping moments. It explores a lot of interesting artificial intelligence questions. The sci fi world here is also fascinating with a super interesting history as far as the lifelikes go. I am so excited that Dev1at3 is out now and can’t wait to see what is going to happen – but also, terrified.
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