Review: Intense and Dark...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
This book was extremely intense and it totally kind of scared me. It’s lucky I can’t shove my kindle in the freezer, or I just might have. Alive by Megan D. Martin is a fast paced and dark read. Alive follows Eve as she attempts to stay alive in a world where many are dead and the few that have survived are hunted down and killed by ‘jenks’ better known as zombies.Eve has spent most of her time since the crave searching for her sister. Her parents are dead and she lost her sister when they were attacked by ‘jenks’ a while back. The book jumps right into things with Eve facing off with some ‘jenks’, but after all the time she has spent fighting as she stands there she thinks that maybe she’d be better off just giving up.Enter Gage, the boy who was once Eve’s great love, who of course broke her heart before the crave happened. He sees that she isn’t going to fight back and saves her setting them on a course to work together to make it to safety and find her sister.I really enjoyed the fast paced feel of the novel. There was always something new happening to keep you on your toes. Martin does a fantastic job of world building and showing us what life is like for the survivors of the crave. I liked Eve, she’s badass and doesn’t take s*** from anyone especially Gage. I liked her even more when we found out what she was like before the crave and the things she had to deal with from people including her family and Gage.I’ve gotta say I was not a fan of Gage. I know that by the end of the book a lot of people liked him, but not me. The scenes between them that were romantic kind of made my stomach turn and I’m not sure why. I didn’t love what we saw of Olive either. The journey she’s been on since being separated from her sister is a lot darker than I would have imagined.While the story was well written and the plot was interesting I couldn’t really get into the book. I’m not sure why, because I really did like Eve. Seeing her transformation to the strong, independent woman she is now is really awesome. There was so much character growth despite the fact that the story started after the crave and we only see pieces before it as her looking back.Despite the fact that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I expected to, I’d definitely recommend it for post-apocalyptic story lovers because it’s got everything you could possibly ask for in it!