Review: Fun NA story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
This book is very New Adult, not YA (Young Adult). Beware of that before reading.Alive is a story about Eve, a girl brought up in a strict almost cult like religious home, and what happens to her and the boy she loved, (and who broke her heart) Gage, after the zombie apocalypse hits.The story starts off four years after the zombies infect the world. We meet Eve right as she is ready to give up and stop fighting. She is saved by Gage. The boy she knew from her past that broke her heart. Her only love and she is still very bitter.Eve is determined to find her sister, Olive. Eve was the unwanted nuisance and Olive the golden child of the family. A lot of how Eve and Olive feel about themselves and how they react to others is based on this.The book switches points of view from Eve to Gage and eventually Olive. It’s confusing at first because it doesn’t go by chapter. They can switch from paragraph to paragraph. You have to read closely at times to know who’s POV it is. And there are grammatical errors, he instead of she, that can make it even trickier.I had just given into the fact that this is a book about two horny people in the apocalypse when the plot really started taking shape and drew me in. Once Olive’s character started chiming in I was hooked and had to know more.The story slips back and forth to the present and past so to explain why each person acts the way they do. I really enjoyed this part of the book. Each person evolved in an interesting manner.I think the lust in the book sort of overshadowed the great story line. It could have been toned down a bit and made more of an impact. But the plot was great and I am really interested to read the next one! What a cliff hanger!!!Only part that really bothered me was Gage’s obsession with Eve being “mine”. It made it sound like he was more interested in controlling her than being in love with her. Like he saw her as a possession and not a person. Plus, I kept thinking of the Disney bird, “mine, mine, mine”. LOL!Worth the read.