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Lifel1k3

Lifel1k3

DystopianPost-Apocalyptic
Pages
416
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

Lifel1k3 opens on an island junkyard under a sky that glows with radiation, where seventeen-year-old Eve builds robot gladiators to survive. When the fighting bot she spent months building is smashed to scrap, Eve is left owing money to a local gangster, unable to pay for her grandfather's care, and hiding a secret even she doesn't understand: she can destroy machines with her mind.

Eve's discovery of Ezekiel, a startlingly human android known as a "Lifelike," upends everything she thought she knew. With her best friend Lemon Fresh and her scavenged robotic sidekick Cricket, Eve treks across glass deserts, fights unkillable machines, and infiltrates fortified megacities, chasing a truth buried in the cybernetic implant where her real memories used to be.

The first book in Jay Kristoff's LIFEL1K3 trilogy, this is a fast, violent dystopian adventure blending robot combat, memory-loss mystery, and android romance, continued in DEV1AT3 and concluded in TRUEL1F3.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

GrittyDarkAdventurousTense
Found FamilyQuestSurvival

Genres

Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Adventure Romance Science Fiction Young Adult YA Fantasy

About the author

J
Jay Kristoff

Jay Kristoff is an Australian author of fantasy and science fiction, born in Perth, Western Australia, on 11 November 1973. He spent eleven years working in creative advertising for television before beginning his writing career in 2012, and now lives in Melbourne. He is best known for The Lotus War trilogy (beginning with Stormdancer), The Nevernight Chronicle, and the Empire of the Vampire series, as well as two trilogies co-written with fellow Melbourne author Amie Kaufman: The Illuminae File...

Characters

EveProtagonist

Junkyard fighter with a hidden mind-power and erased memories.

EzekielSupporting

A Lifelike android whose existence upends Eve's understanding of her past.

Lemon FreshSupporting

Eve's best friend.

The CricketSupporting

Eve's scavenged robotic sidekick.

All characters in Lifel1k3

Frequently asked questions

  • Is this book part of a series?

    This is the first installment in the Lifel1k3 trilogy, which continues in the sequels Dev1at3 and Truel1f3.

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