DEV1AT3 Review

Title: DEV1AT3 (LIFEL1K3, #2)

Author: Jay Kristoff

Release Date: June 25, 2019

Publisher: Knopf Books For Young Readers

Genre: Dystopia, Science Fiction, Young Adult

Rating: ★★★★

Disclaimer: Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review. It has not influenced my opinions.

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Summary (If you have not read LIFEL1K3 this blurb will spoil you):

Lemon Fresh has seen better days.

After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies. Instead, Lemon finds herself falling in with a group of fellow deviates—a band of teenagers with astonishing abilities, led by an enigmatic figure known as the Major, who may hold the secrets to Lemon’s past.

Meanwhile, Cricket finds himself in possession of the puritanical Brotherhood, a religious cult set for a head-on collision with the Major and his band. Searching for Lemon, Ezekiel finds a strange ally in an old enemy, and uncovers a plot that may see him reunited with his beloved Ana.

And inside Babel, a remade Eve hatches a plan to bring an end to the world.

Review:

The book begins about five hours after the last events of Lifel1k3, in which Ezekiel, Lemon and Cricket are running away from Babel Tower, leaving their friend Evie behind. Very quickly they are separated in the wastes and their individual adventures begin.

The story has different POV's which is great because I love getting to see their individual characterizations and the development without the other characters being present. Lemon Fresh is seen struggling not only with her powers but with being left without any of the people she cares about. I think her struggle with trying to find a family was portrayed beautifully and very realistically. When she finally meets others like her, she feels a sense of belonging and a sense of finally finding a real family.

As for Cricket, I loved getting to see more of him! I think he is such an underrated character and his development was absolutely incredible in this book. We get to see him dealing with having new 'owners' who treat him horribly, something he is clearly not used to because Lemon and Eve treated him with love and compassion.

Finally, we get to see Ezekiel and his struggle with loving both Eve and Ana, and trying to figure out if he loved Evie because she was supposed to be Ana or if he loved her as her own person. He also struggles with his love for his family versus what he knows is right: saving the human race.

All in all, the plot was very fast paced, interesting and had a heck of a lot of action and adventure. I felt like I was on a roller coaster of emotions, feeling scared for a moment and then being incredibly angry the next. There was a moment where I had to roll my eyes because I could see the plot twist coming from a mile away, but it was nothing that I would say took away from the story. If anything, it kept you on your toes, waiting for the other shoe to drop. 

I would highly recommend this book for any fans of Jay Kristoff's writing style and for anyone wanting to read an amazing dystopian fantasy, complete with robots trying to end the human race, humans developing powers and lots and lots of drama!

Thanks again to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my ow