Can't Wait Wednesday No. 50: LIFEL1K3, by Jay Kristoff

Welcome to "Can't Wait Wednesday"!

   

This is a weekly event hosted by

Tressa @ Wishful Endings, and inspired by "Waiting On Wednesday", which used to be hosted by

 Jill @ Breaking the Spine.

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As in the previous meme, this one showcases future releases  we book  bloggers 
are eagerly anticipating!!
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Here's my choice for this week!

 LIFEL1K3

(Lifelike, Book 1)

Jay Kristoff

Hardcover, 416 pages

Knopf Books for Young Readers

     May 29, 2018       

Dystopian Fiction, Feminist Fiction,

Science Fiction, 

Young Adult Fiction 

  

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.

Why I can't wait for this one!

I'm happy to see more Young Adult SF coming down the pike! I LOVE science fiction, and it's GREAT when I can also read YA right along with it! Besides, I ALWAYS gravitate toward strong female protagonists, one of which is featured in this novel! YAAAAAY!! So yeah, I'm pretty excited!! (Even though, unfortunately, this cover really doesn't do anything for me.....) On the positive side, at least I found out about THIS series from the very beginning! Lol. AND..... Kristoff already has a reputation for riveting writing, if you know anything about him!!

Jay Kristoff is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE NEVERNIGHT CHRONICLES, THE ILLUMINAE FILES, and THE LOTUS WAR. He is the winner of four Aurealis Awards, an ABIA, nominee for the David Gemmell Morningstar and Legend awards, named multiple times in the Kirkus and Amazon Best Teen Books list, and published in over thirty 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 13,030 days to live. He abides in Melbourne with his secret agent Kung-Fu assassin wife, and the world’s laziest Jack Russell.

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