A group of young adults awake in a mysterious enclosed space with no knowledge of who they are or how they got there…and an indomitable young woman must lead them not only to answers but to survival.
A young woman awakes trapped in an enclosed space. She has no idea who she is or how she got there. With only her instincts to guide her, she escapes her own confinement—and finds she’s not alone. She frees the others in the room and leads them into a corridor filled with the remains of a war long past. The farther these survivors travel, the worse are the horrors they confront. And as they slowly come to understand what this prison is, they realize that the worst and strangest possibilities they could have imagined don’t even come close to the truth.
Alive is one of those books which the premise alone made me drop everything else I was reading to start reading this book. I had read very few reviews on this book, and the author has requested that very little detail about the book be given. I don’t think I’m the sort of reviewer that reveals spoilers in books, but I have to admit that I struggled while writing this review in fear of giving too much away.
This is my first book by Scott Sigler and the first book of The Generations Trilogy. I love dystopian novels and that drew me to this story. Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed as I started to read and recognize themes very similar to other famous dystopian novels. This is not a bad book, and although the story is interesting and fast paced the storyline is not very original. I’m looking forward to the next books in this series, and hopefully a departure from these familiar dystopian themes.
I’d like to thank NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Book Details:
Title: Alive/Author: Scott Sigler/Genre: Dystopian/YA / ISBN: 9780553393101/Publisher: Del Rey/Rating: 3-Stars/Read: May, 2015.
