Title: RevivedAuthor: Cat Patrick Edition: hardcoverSeries: noneReleased Date: May 8th, 2012 Publisher: Little, BrownGoodreads / Amazon As a little girl, Daisy Appleby was killed in a school bus crash. Moments after the accident, she was brought back to life.
A secret government agency has developed a drug called Revive that can bring people back from the dead, and Daisy Appleby, a test subject, has been Revived five times in fifteen years. Daisy takes extraordinary risks, knowing that she can beat death, but each new death also means a new name, a new city, and a new life. When she meets Matt McKean, Daisy begins to question the moral implications of Revive, and as she discovers the agency’s true goals, she realizes she’s at the center of something much larger—and more sinister—than she ever imagined.
Daisy's whole life has revolved around keeping Revive a secret. In her fifteen years, Daisy has died a total of five times, and each time she is revived using a special medicine of sorts. After each death, Daisy has to move to a new town, in order to keep suspicions as low as possible. When Daisy moves and meets Matt and Audrey McKean, she finally finds people she calls her friends. Daisy's journey with the McKean siblings brings out feelings she'd never thought she would experience: sorrow, happiness, and even love. When things take a turn of events, Daisy gets down to business.
Honestly, I'm not sure if Daisy had much of a personality. Usually when I'm reviewing a novel, I think of a couple of words to describe the main character. There weren't many that I could think of to describe her besides the word REVIVE. Daisy's whole life is revolved around this medicine, that it doesn't give her much room to have a unique and an easy-to-relate-with personality. There wasn't anything extremely interesting to her, besides the fact that each time she moved she liked to go all out with her bedroom when she redecorated.
The other thing that bothered me about Daisy was the insta-love she felt for Matt. Her and Matt had barely talked and she was decided that she was in love with him. Clearly, I don't believe in love and first sight, so it kind of ticked me off. She was always wondering about him, when she had MUCH more important things to worry about! I don't really know if Matt had much interesting things about him. I mean, he was caring and all, but he didn't have anything that would strike my interest if I had started to talk to him. Maybe he was just that cute....
Matt's sister, Audrey, was MUCH more interesting in my opinion. I was curious why she clearly the 'popular' girl, but none of her friends would talk to her, and her old boyfriend looked at her super sadly. I'm trying to keep spoilers out of this, so this part is really hard to write about. The scenes with Audrey at the end get super emotional, and that's probably the most I've cried in a book. Even if I didn't connect with Daisy or Matt, I still connected with the relationship that Daisy, Matt, and Audrey had.
The reason why I'm giving this book three stars, is because of all the plot twists that held me on tight through the novel, and because of the emotional scenes with Audrey. Also, it's rare that there's a good epilogue, but I think this one was awesome! It was short, but it still wrapped up the novel and it showed that Daisy had grown throughout the course of the novel. I kind of wished there was a sequel, because I'm sure I would rather read about Daisy now that she has a personality. Otherwise the rest of the novel fell a little short for me. I was planning on giving the novel a four stars, just because of the emotional scenes and then the awesome plot line, but the characters have to be strong enough for me to like the book a lot. These characters fell short for me, and I was contemplating if I was going to mark this book DNF, until about midpoint when the plot got REALLY interesting!
