The book starts with the protagonist waking up in a coffin. I'd try to put it down and would find myself picking it right back up to get some of my burning questions answered. As I delved deeper, I realized that this story was completely unique and I couldn't seem to get enough. My first thoughts after the first few chapters was that this felt a bit like Lord of the Flies/The Maze Runner. Wow! Really great storyline with amazing twists and turns. I actually liked this so much that I bought the hardcopy! Thank you to Netgalley and Random House Publishing for the opportunity to read the ARC of this book. Keep yourself in the dark, so you can join them as they struggle toward the light. You shouldn't even learn the richly detailed and utterly compelling characters' names. Night Shyamalan - a fog of mystery that conceals terrible danger and pitiless reality, a slow crawl to revelation, and, at long last, a payoff that leaves you reeling.Īlive is a at times a bildungsroman, at times a tremendous work of survival horror, at times a dystopian post-apocalyptic masterpiece on par with The Maze Runner or Divergent.Īlive is many things, but most importantly, it is this: easily among the best works of Science Fiction I've read in the past five years. It has this in common with the best films of M. The book is a voyage of discovery, a desperate and scrabbling effort to cut through darkness and discover truth. In fact, I only want you to know one thing: drop whatever you are doing, right now, and read it. The less you know about Scott Sigler's Alive, the better.

Or maybe a reality they cannot comprehend lies just beyond the next turn. Maybe there's a way out, a rational explanation, and a fighting chance against the dangers to come. If she has to lead, she will make sure they survive. Whatever the truth is, she is determined to find it and confront it. Now, if they’re to have any chance, she must get them to trust one another. She is not the biggest among them, or the boldest, but for some reason the others trust her. Savage, which was engraved on the foot of her coffin-yet she finds herself in charge. She knows only one thing about herself-her name, M. Beyond their room lies a corridor filled with bones and dust, but no people…and no answers. Fighting her way free brings little relief-she discovers only a room lined with caskets and a handful of equally mystified survivors.

She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. No, not a board…a lid.Ī teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. There is a board right in front of my face. I lift my head…it thumps against something solid and unmoving. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else.

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