We sold it on a 7 chapter sample and a synopsis of the rest of the series. All those Mad Max and empty Red Bull can pics suddenly make sense, right?Īlmost. Is this the project you’ve been teasing on Instagram lately?
My elevator pitch was “Romeo and Juliet meets Bladerunner, while Fury Road plays a guitar solo in the background.” It features (in no particular order) Giant Mechanical War Machines. LIFEL1K3 is about a girl named Eve and her best friend Lemon, who find a ruined android in a scrap heap – an almost-boy named Ezekiel, who knows the truth behind the robotic revolt. In the wake of an uprising in a post-apocalyptic USA, the robotic populace have been reduced to slaves, and androids (robots who look like humans) have been outlawed. Can you tell us a little more about the book?
Lifelike is available at major bookstores.Īston Higgins is a design student from Melbourne.That blurb doesn’t say much.
That being said, I did find some of the slang and terminology used in the world-building was actually pulling me out of the story, as opposed to immersing me in it.įans of dystopian fiction and compelling characters will dive into the following two books in this trilogy. However, I never felt the characters were being overshadowed by the action, more that the action was being driven by the characters. His way of describing action scenes is entertaining and easy to visualise, and the characters all have distinct personalities with very human struggles. We see Kristoff explore how difference can be used to divide people and how humans struggle to acknowledge their past without letting it define their future. Lifelike’s strength is its ability to tackle the theme of what it means to be human. Instead, the New York Times bestselling author keeps your curiosity going throughout the story, sharing the tale of a Romeo and Juliest-esque come X-Men saga about a girl called Evie and an android named Ezekial. Melbourne-based writer Jay Kristoff has such an organic way of slowly revealing information without it feeling like a clunky info dump. Lifelike (stylised as LIFEL1K3) is an action-packed, sci-fi dystopian story that will keep young adults hooked at every turn.
The first book in a young adults trilogy, its strength lies in its exploration of what it means to be human.
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