The future slang and language make sense, and the characters he creates will elicit feelings of sympathy and caring. Kristoff’s writing is creative, and his world-building is effective. And during their journey across the desert, Evie must learn who she really is and what family means to her. Her nightmares begin to make sense, and Evie is torn in deciding whether or not to trust Ezekiel. Soon, Evie starts to remember things about her past that don’t add up. With them is a lifelike robot named Ezekiel, who calls Evie by the name of Ana. The rest of the family group sets out to find Grandpa and rescue him. When the mobs find Evie, she and her friends manage to escape, but during the fight to escape, her grandfather is kidnapped by a lifelike robot. A red-robed group called the Brotherhood wants to nail her to a cross, but there is also a very strange individual, who calls himself the Preacher, who wants her for a mysterious nefarious reason.

This seemingly freakish ability to destroy robots attracts the attention of those who want to harm her.

This family group is wonderful, but Grandpa is dying from cancer, so Evie fights robots in an arena to win money to buy him medicine.ĭuring one particularly difficult fight, she finds a new ability. In this world lives Evie, with her grandfather, her best friend Lemon, and her robot best friend Cricket. In fact, robots and humans coexist in a depressing world with gray skies and a desperate struggle for survival. The ocean is filled with plastic and other garbage, and animals and trees are nonexistent. With “Lifel1k3,” author Jay Kristoff takes readers on a wild ride in a bleak (so very bleak!) dystopian future where atomic bombs have destroyed much of the Yousay (USA, get it?) and California has become a barren island because of a huge earthquake.

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