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Half Lives is a book that really makes you think. I found it hard to put down once I started. There are two stories that occur in the book in the same basic location, but one occurs in present day and the other many years in the future. I liked how the author used normal things from present day and made them seem sacred in the future. The present day story had clues to help you figure out what was happening in the future story.

The story helped me to realize the importance of having hope and a higher purpose in life. Even in survival mode, the characters who had hope in something higher seemed to be better off than the others. This story will make you laugh and cry. I highly recommend it!


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Half Lives 9781780620381 Books Reviews

Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales.

Quick & Dirty This was a post apocalyptic story set in present day and the future, that felt all too real. Unfortunately, I found it really hard to connect with any of the characters and I had a hard time finishing it.

Opening Sentence If you'd asked me that day whether I could lie, cheat, steal, and kill, I would have said ab-so-lutely not.

The Review

Icie is your average 17 year old girl. She hangs out with her best friend and the worst thing to happen to her is that her boyfriend just broke up with her through a text message. Then one day her parents give her $10,000 and put her on a plane for Las Vegas. They tell her she has to go to a nuclear waste bunker in a mountain that was never finished. Her parents work for the government and they got wind that there is going to be a terrible terrorist attack where a virus is going to be released, and there is no way to stop it. She picks up some new friends on her journey to the mountain, but their trek is not easy. With the virus spreading and people going crazy they have to fight to survive. Once they make it to the bunker they have to stay there for months with no news about what happened outside. They have no way of knowing if they are safe or if they will survive long enough to see what has become of the world outside.

In the future Beckett is the leader of his small village of people. They have lived on the mountain ever since the terrorist attack happened 18 years ago. No one ever leaves the mountain and they worship The Great I Am, who has protected them from any harm as long as they don't leave. Beckett has always followed the rules but one day he meets a mysterious girl that isn't from his mountain. The more he learns about her, the more he starts to question all the things he has been taught since he was a child. Is it really as dangerous out in the world as he as always believed, or has his whole life been a lie.

First you meet Icie and I felt that she was very superficial. I understand that in the setting she needs to be ruthless to survive but I felt that her lack of compassion made her hard to connect with. She has many flaws and she owns up to her flaws which I usually like, but it just didn't work for me in this story. Towards the end she gets a little better but it just came too late for me to really like her. I also felt that during her parts of the story it was really depressing and sad. I don't mind if a book is heartbreaking but it didn't pull at my heart strings like I wanted it to.

In the future part of the book the point of view switches between a bunch of different people. The main one is Beckett and he is the leader of his small clan of people. I didn't mind Beckett, but there was really nothing that stuck out about him that was really memorable. I felt that way about all of the future characters, there wasn't a single one that I really could connect with. I felt that when you were in Beckett's world the story really dragged and I got bored with the story pretty quickly.

Overall, this was just an ok read for me. The plot did have some interesting twists but I had a really hard time getting into the story. I had to force myself to keep reading so I could finish the book which is never a good thing. I didn't connect with any of the characters and I found the book to be really depressing. With this kind of book you need to really connect on an emotional level and I just didn't get that. Honestly, this is really not my type of book, it was too serious and sad for me. Now that being said, I do think that there will be other people who actually really enjoy this book. If you like post apocalyptic and you don't mind it being sad or a little slow you might really enjoy it. So obviously this book just wasn't for me, but if the synopsis interests you give it a try.

FTC Advisory Little Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group provided me with a copy of Half Lives. No goody bags, sponsorships, "material connections," or bribes were exchanged for my review.
The story is told between two narratives. The first narrative is set in present day maybe near future where terrorists released a bio weapon and the main character, Icie, plus 3 teens escape to wait out the virus in a government storage building/cave inside a mountain.

The second narrative is set hundreds of years in the future with a group of more primitive teens living in the same mountain and worship a goddess names The Great IAM.

The story jumps between both narratives so to make the two narratives "read" different they are in different fonts, at least that is how it is in the kindle version.

It's a neat twist on the apocalyptic genre especially showing how the past can mold the future and how small things can cause huge ripples in the future. It should have worked but it doesn't always work.

I found the future storyline and characters much more interesting as if the author had a more connection with those characters and didn't connect with the present day characters as much.

Icie is such a stereotype of the modern teenager she comes off one dimensional. The author tried to make her "edgy" because Icie has dreads but I felt like it was just something thrown in to make Icie unique. It didn't work.

Also the twists and connections between the two narratives are foreshadowed so much no one should be surprised by the big reveal.

Not that it's a bad book. It's a fun read as much as an end of world novel can be fun. I liked it .
Half Lives is a book that really makes you think. I found it hard to put down once I started. There are two stories that occur in the book in the same basic location, but one occurs in present day and the other many years in the future. I liked how the author used normal things from present day and made them seem sacred in the future. The present day story had clues to help you figure out what was happening in the future story.

The story helped me to realize the importance of having hope and a higher purpose in life. Even in survival mode, the characters who had hope in something higher seemed to be better off than the others. This story will make you laugh and cry. I highly recommend it!