Half Lives
Sara Grant
Goodreads Summary:
Present day: Icie is a typical high school teenager - until disaster strikes and her parents send her to find shelter inside a mountain near Las Vegas.
The future: Beckett lives on The Mountain - a sacred place devoted to the Great I AM. He must soon become the leader of his people. But Beckett is forced to break one of the sacred laws, and when the Great I AM does not strike him down, Beckett finds himself starting to question his beliefs.
As Beckett investigates The Mountain's history, Icie's story is revealed - along with the terrifying truth of what lies at the heart of The Mountain.
Sara Grant's HALF LIVES is a dystopian chronicle of the journeys of two unlikely heroes in their race against time to save future generations
Wow! What a weird approach to a dystopian story! But I like it! I love when authors take a general genre and make it their own, and the narratives between 2 teens in different time periods that connect is incredible. Not to mention, the reader does not know the extent of the connection to the very end. Grant gives glimpses of the past in Beckett's narrative, and you find some clues to the future in Icie's.
This book is great for anyone with a taste for Dystopian literature. I believe this is a stand-alone book, so those of you who are scared of a daunting trilogy or longer series are in luck! You get the whole story in one go.
There is a bit of adult content, so make sure you know what level of maturity you are allowed to read.
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