[Blog Tour Review] LifeL1k3 by Jay Kristoff

Wednesday it is!

Hi, everyone!

Today marks the third day for the running blog tour for LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff who is hosted by Raf – behind The Royal Polar Bear Reads blog. As I’m one of the participants in the tour, I’m gonna share with you my exploration of this book and how much this left me needing more of its action-packed adventures. Without any words to follow, let’s begin!

Disclosure: *I received an advance reading copy and Netgalley widget of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review and don’t mean to affect how I will read nor give my opinion about it. My opinion is mine and mine alone after reading the book. Thank you, Rafael @ The Royal Polar Bear Reads for having me in this blog tour and to Penguin Random House International.

On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap.

Seventeen-year-old Eve isn’t looking for trouble–she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she spent months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, she’s on the local gangster’s wanted list, and the only thing keeping her grandpa alive is the money she just lost to the bookies. Worst of all, she’s discovered she can somehow destroy machines with the power of her mind, and a bunch of puritanical fanatics are building a coffin her size because of it. If she’s ever had a worse day, Eve can’t remember it. The problem is, Eve has had a worse day–one that lingers in her nightmares and the cybernetic implant where her memories used to be.

Her discovery of a handsome android named Ezekiel–called a “Lifelike” because they resemble humans–will bring her world crashing down and make her question whether her entire life is a lie. With her best friend Lemon Fresh and her robotic sidekick Cricket in tow, Eve will trek across deserts of glass, battle unkillable bots, and infiltrate towering megacities to save the ones she loves…and learn the truth about the bloody secrets of her past.

I don’t know if it is a coincidence of events that before I did read this book, I happened to finish watching first a tv series entitled Humans. If some of you know this show, I think you might take a guess how my imagination works while reading the book then or… not. Anyway, after aligning my views between the two, they are much pretty different to say. Humans is a show about robots – Synth (what they call to them) and how they become essentially part of human lives. Though the twist is that there are several Synth who are much human as they can just think on their own and feel emotions. Fortunately, the book is much more to give – badass scenes and well, action.

I’m a fan of a robot (not the collector or obsessive type, just fascinated-on-how-robot-is) that I love how extraordinaire and advanced they can be to the human world. But to say, they are worthy is to think well hard as they can be also a risk to our humanity. The irony is, sometimes human wishes to be a robot when a robot can also wish to be a human. Lifelike, as a post-apocalyptic book, envisioned some scenarios robots are in great help and disaster. As you progress deep into the book, you will bound to see a truth that even you don’t wish for it, you got no options to take and that’s what you will know for sure to Eve.

Lies. Bloody. False life. AI. Android. Robot. Things you’ll encounter about this book and many more but that’s how mostly I recognized this book. Yet the humor in the midst of the look of things is a great addition just not to make all very serious and a thing I like even for zombie apocalypse theme movie. Thanks to Cricket and Lemon Fresh I still got to laugh from time to time.

Warn you, folks, there are lots of violence and brutal picture here. So better be prepared for it, though. I also observed the biblical sense of the book with the names, and the tower which is likely noticeable but put a smile on me because of Supernatural reference (not for the author but for me).

This is my first Jay Kristoff’s book to read and I’m not disappointed that I took the chance on giving this a try. The mesmerizing and amazing exploit of the whole story is indeed great and intricately the best. The ending is a must to follow with the revelation and the journey to continue. Definitely on the waiting list for the next book to this.

Jay Kristoff

Jay Kristoff is the #1 international, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of THE NEVERNIGHT CHRONICLE, THE ILLUMINAE FILES and THE LOTUS WAR.

He is the winner of five Aurealis Awards, an ABIA, has over half a million books in print and is published in over thirty-five countries, most of which he has never visited. He is as surprised about all of this as you are. He is 6’7 and has approximately 12,000 days to live.

He does not believe in happy endings.

jaykristoff.com

   

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Blog Tour Schedule

June 11:

Rafael – The Royal Polar Bear Reads

June 12:

Jennilyn – Rurouni Jenni Reads | Bianca – Stay Bookish

June 13: 

Joel – Descendant of Poseidon Reads | Carmel – Bookablereads

June 14: 

Shaine – Wanderer in Neverland

June 15:

Myrth – Cliste Bella | Jon – Wander with Jon

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Thank you for reading!