From the co-author of the New York Times best-selling Illuminae Files comes the first instalment in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator and all adrenaline.

It’s just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built....

When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend and her robotic sidekick in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, battle cyborg assassins and scour abandoned megacities to save the ones she loves...and learn the dark secrets of her past.

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Listening Length	12 hours and 28 minutes
Author	Jay Kristoff
Narrator	Erin Spencer
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	01 June 2022
Publisher	Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09YJ26PD8
Best Sellers Rank	5,201 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 30 in Science Fiction Adventures for Young Adults 35 in Action & Adventure Fiction for Teens 103 in Science Fiction & Fantasy for Teens

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Quentin E. Fogarty

Fantastic tale but told in a way where the reader ...

Reviewed in Australia on 8 July 2018

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Had me from the start. Fantastic tale but told in a way where the reader is happy to surrender disbelief and go along for the ride. And what a ride. So pleased you stayed true to the main character right until the end. It would have been so easy to go for a cliched ending but you didn't, so well done.

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Page turner

Reviewed in Australia on 19 July 2019

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Can't wait to read the next....WOW. I cannot believe it has taken me so long to find this Author. Thank you for helping me escape to another place I would never otherwise have experienced.

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Marie Davies

What a ride!

Reviewed in Australia on 5 June 2018

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A great fast read that will twist and turn all the way. Loved the works and characters and can’t wait for the next book. Seriously.

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Holly James

Like Blade Runner on acid!

Reviewed in Australia on 23 July 2019

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Jay Kristoff doesn’t disappoint in this SCI-FI romp

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Three Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 1 August 2018

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This is a wonderful story that is truly exceptional and powerful story and a must read for all.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 June 2018

This is an utterly fascinating book, and to be honest, it started off in one direction (I thought it was going to have a bit of a ‘Real Steel’ feel to it, but quickly realised it was much more in the realms of Philip K Dick territory, looking more like a cross between a ‘Blade Runner’ Replicant story, with bits of I, Robot (the book obviously), and a setting straight out of Mad Max (there are scenes that could quite easily have been taken from Mad Max, as well as the Book of Eli).
This gives you a bit of a feel for the type of world building that is going on in the back ground of this story, it is truly epic as Kristoff weaves this tale of a young girl, Eve, and her friends, Lemon Fresh, Eve’s BFF, and sidekick in all things, Cricket a mouthy little robot (but don’t ever call him little, or he will bust a circuit to break the 3 laws to end you), as well as her loyal cyborg dog Kaiser, there is also her grumpy old sick grandfather who they live with. They live in an apocalyptic world (did you get that from all the previous references??), in which bombs have been dropped and California has been separated along the San Andreas fault, making it now an island, the ‘sea’ in between, not really an ocean, but a glassed bit of sand with a radioactive bit of sludge on top that not many are willing to cross (unless desperate).
They survive by putting together bits of robots to make their own to fight in ‘The Dome’ for what passes for money. In the future, there are 3 types of robots, Machina, Logikas, and Automatas. All are supposedly controlled by Asimov’s 3 laws (and Kristoff has this beautiful addendum to the laws that really makes you think)
Before you have even reached a couple of chapters into the story, you have had an entire world thrown up around you, and you have been dropped into this futuristic robotic world with such depth, that you really wonder where the story is going, how can the Author build this wonderful place any deeper. And then we are introduced to Lifelikes, the 4th evolution of Robots, and you realise that all of the stuff we have just read is like a prologue and give it a couple of chapters, and you will forget it even happened.
When Eve and the crew come across ‘Ezekiel’ a Lifelike – which is a robot that has been created to perfectly resemble a human, but with such beauty that they would make a super-model look bad, strength to outdo most Machina, agility to put even the finest ballerinas to shame, and speed beyond the visual range, these are the perfect epitome of robotics and human hybrid. They too, must follow the 3 laws.
I don’t want to give too much of the story away from this point, but we quickly learn that Eve has a very different past than we first believe, and the man who is posing as her grumpy old grand-father is not her grand-father at all.
The story becomes very quickly involved, far deeper than you could think possible.
This is a fantastic story full of exceptional characters, incredible machines and technology, and some raw, gritty and powerful emotions. The story just keeps moving forward at a pace that you just don’t realise is happening until you are three quarters of the way through the book and going ‘WOW’ at what has happened so far, and it doesn’t slow down.
Eve’s character is incredibly powerful, as is the character of Ezekiel and the Lifelikes. The message that underlines this book, about how we treat others, even Robot AI, is a very powerful message, and whilst we haven’t reached that point quite yet in our technology, the growing gap in our economic society, between the rich and poor, makes the message just as powerful as the upper class forget the rights of those that they consider beneath them.
This book is brilliant on so many levels, that it is worth the read regardless of what you enjoy, any sub-genre of Sci-Fi, but also several other genre’s as well.
Kristoff has created a book that will be remember for a long time once word spreads, and will it will be nominated for awards throughout the year. Get in early before it does, and before the movie gets made.

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TRULY GREAT STUFF!!!!!

Reviewed in Australia on 10 June 2018

This YA romantic sci fi thriller about a post apocalytpic Earth is one of the surprise reads of 2018. Book one of a trilogy, the ending will leave you on such a fantastic cliff hanger that you will have trouble believing that book two won't come out for close to 12 months. The book begins in such heart breakingly violent fashion that it is also hard to believe that it was written for kids. Well, young adults, to be more precise. But then it evolves into an obvious teen romance, with excellent, traditional and very respectful science fiction elements thrown in but the reader is none the poorer for that, even if you are old enough to be the grand parent of the book’s target audience. The writing is perfectly pitched, with flashbacks at the start to each chapter, tearing you (and your heart) away from the current time events, and these are so gorgeously written that they soon become the book’s highlights.

Without giving too much away, a young girl finds herself witness to thr brutal murder of her family, and finds herself trapped in a new world where she battles armoured tech in public fights to earn money that funds her grand father’s medication. But just like in all good tales, love soon comes storming in to upset the plans of all good men (and women) and the certain young lady who witnessed her family’s destruction at the start doesnt know where to turn (or look) for the love she feels for the young man blocking her vision.

But great tales have twists and turns stronger and heavier than the world’s mightiest rivers and this book has them in abundance. You will have trouble believing your eyes as you try to follow the plot, but one baddie appears only to be replaced with another and soon enough, fighting for money is replaced with fighting for one’s life in the streets. Its a good thing our heroine (victim) has good friends to rely on, as she will need them in order to see through the book’s finale. And what a finale it is. Sure to leave you breathless, and certainly impatient for book two, it wasnt until the very final chapter that you might predict how this opening volume will turn out. And yet its literally the book’s final sentence where the author’s true genius comes to the fore with a plot twist so shocking and strong and brilliant it will give you whiplash. And that is no exaggeration.

At this book’s 75% mark i was happy to give it 4/5 stars and i was keen to start something else. In a two hour session this afternoon, i sat enthralled and totally entertained by this amazing book written for the adults of tomorrow. So it is clearly worth full marks and the book is also clearly worthy of formal industry recognition. A great surprise, a great story, written by a great author. Truly Great stuff.

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Lyn Haines

Totally delivers - an excellent read!

Reviewed in Australia on 20 September 2020

The tagline on the cover of my copy read: 'It's Romeo & Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men with a little bit of Blade Runner cheering from the sidelines.'

Now, I've read Jay Kristoff before so I knew I was in good hands BUT calling out those four classics was a big move and ... he absolutely delivered and even added a little Russian history into the mix!

Absolutely loved every page.

Highly recommend.

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G. Noble

Good but I felt there was something missing for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2020

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In this futuristic tale Eve, along with her best friend Lemon, her robot sidekick Cricket, and blitzhund Kaiser, lives on the Scrap - a wasteland of junk. She scrapes a living together by fighting in the WarDome against machines. When Eve wages her entire savings on one bout to enable her to win enough to buy medicine for her grandpa, she suffers shock defeat but finds out she possesses a power which will label her as a Deviant. Unfortunately everyone has seen this on the televised bout. On her way home, she finds an android in the wreckage of a plane crash who calls her 'Ana' which sets off a series of fractured memories. This android, Ezekiel, holds the key to Eve finding out who she is and what happened in her past.

First of all, did anyone get reading this get major 'based on Romanov assassinations' vibes from this? The executions, the names (Nicholas, Alex, Marie, Ana)? That's all I could think when I read it. Anyway, the book itself is rather good - shades of Robot Wars, Mad Max, and Terminator. The characters are high on snark, and the action pretty much never lets up. For all that, I just found something missing for me, I didn't feel emotionally engaged. Currently undecided on whether I will read the next one or not.

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Books by Becci

Great read if you love Robots and Romanovs!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2019

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8.5 /10
I'm a recent convert to Sci-fi books (recently loving Aurora Rising and being obsessed with Illuminae Files). So even though this didn't sound my cup of tea, I thought I'd give it a go, plus Jay Kristoff is now an auto buy author for me.

This was more the robot/futuristic/cyborg part of sci-fi and I'm just not that into it (a bit like the animalistic/tricking Faeries genre) it's just not really my thing. But if it's yours then you will love this.

Because of this is took me a little longer to get into this as it opens on a robot-on-robot showdown. However as soon as it became more character based I couldn't put it down! It's well paced and well written.

You've got a good mix of characters, the headstrong Eve, the funny best friend Lemon, cute cyberdog Kaiser, grumpy grandad and too perfect Ezekiel.
But the best is Cricket the loyal, sarcastic robot. Is it just me or is he a sassy Wall-E? Love the LITTLE guy. I also like when the 'bad guys' have more depth to them than just being evil and Kristoff does that well in this book.

As with all Kristoffs books there were great twists- oh my god- I think I've worked out one and then suddenly there's like three more! Although I wasn't completely sold on the ending I can't wait to see what happens in Dev1at3

It took me much longer than I'd like to admit to realise the book is clearly inspired by the Romanov family in Russia and how they died. Hell even Romanov is an anagram of Monrova and the names are very similar!! I love that. It's not a retelling but draws from the real life family and events.

Whilst I do like it when authors create little language quirks for their world's, I found some of the lanaguge overused (fizzy/fug) and I do cringe at the term 'my bestest'.

Overall really good read (but nothing on the Illuminae files!) It's main fault is that it's not my favourite genre but I still enjoyed it. Will definitely be grabbing the sequel.

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piercedgirl

Give me all the Kristoff books!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2019

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I've been thinking about this for a few days now, the ending left my brain so frazzled that I haven't been able to read anything else since.

I fell in love with Jay Kristoff's writing last year when I read his and Amie Kaufman's Illuminae trilogy. Since then I picked up first 2 books in the Nevernight Chronicles and pretty much devoured them in a short space of time.

LifeL1k3 has been a book that I have wanted to read for a while but never got round to buying it, in fact, I was waiting until my birthday to go book shopping and get it, but when I looked it up on Amazon I realised it was on offer for £1.99. I couldn't resist.

I enjoyed the use of language and new words that you find in his books. It took me a little while to get my head around the meanings but once I did I found it to flow more so for me.

I loved that there were so many twists to the story, just when I could kind of get my head around what we just found out there would be another twist thrown into the story, there were times where I couldn't trust what we were told.

I loved it.

In regards to the characters, I loved the strength of all of them, I loved how none of them was what you expected initially, I liked how, despite some of them not being human, they were so complex to what they were made to be. The only character I didn't particularly like was the Preacher, I felt he was built up to be a big plot point but it fell flat in the performance, I still don't fully understand the reasoning behind his behaviours, I think you could have taken him out of the book completely and not much would have changed.

I loved the romance element, I wish we had more of it, but I know its not his style to overbear the story with the romance. I hope that we get more of it in the second book, but then again I am unsure about how with the big twist at the end.

I still don't know what to make of it, there's only so much I can comment without giving it away. I didn't particularly like the choices a certain character made in the very very end of the book, I couldn't see how it's going to work out, but I am excited to see how it does come about.

I think I would like a prequel to see the background of how these characters met and how their relationship initially developed. I think it would be interesting to see more of these relationships, but that's mostly because I love a good love story.

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S Payne

Wasn't really for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2019

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I love a good sci-fi book and this one was in the Kindle sale for 99p, so I bought it and started it straight away.
We follow Eve, Lemon and Ezekiel along with a robotic sidekick as they battle their way through cyborg assassins to save Eve’s “grandfather”.

This book is fast paced, maybe a little bit too fast paced for me. The characters are constantly in some sort of battle and this became a bit exhausting for me, it also meant that I felt that I didn’t really learn much about the characters. The writing flows well but the characters were hard to like and I couldn’t get past the weird love interest between human and robot.

Overall, I didn’t love this and I won’t bother with the rest of the series.

Dave

Simple excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2018

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I hadn't realised this was a YA targeted book when I picked it up and if this is the quality then I an going to find many more, even if being a YA was several life times ago. If you are reading this as a growed up then give it some of your time, it is a great story, fast paced, great characterisation and gives us great hope for future adult targeted sci-fi, now off to find out where book 2 is.

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