They even have these nifty little marks on their forehead that obviously signify some sort of caste, but they have no idea what they mean. This book is human nature in a Pertri dish. They are blank slates. Not only that you get to watch their own ideas about gender, race, job, religion, appearance, class, markings, etc.

These kids don’t remember hating each other in the past, they don’t remember schoolyard friendships, they don’t remember race, colour or creed. You get to watch the Id and the Super-ego duke it out without that problematic Ego getting in the way. The coffin-kids have no memories they remember small concepts and words, but they have no idea how they know what they know.

(This book even has spears and pigs, FYI.) I will not go into the plot anymore because spoiling this book is the last thing I want to do for any one, but let’s just say I hated reading Lord of the Flies in school (it made me want to take a shower and then give back my Human Race Membership card), but this book made me love the whole scenario. Your two main thoughts when reading this book: Number 1 – what the fuck happened here? Number 2 – what the actual fuck just happened here?! But Seriously… Somehow they have to survive both each other and this hostile world corpse-ridden world. In their minds it is their 12 th birthday. There is no one around.Įm and her friends have no memories. Pretty soon the coffin-kids leave their room and begin exploring the halls which are decorated with jewels and stepped-pyramids, and are covered in the dust of hundreds, if not thousands, of dead disintegrating adult bodies. In the other half of these coffins are the most beautiful people she has ever seen and they are asleep just like she was. More coffins, and in about half of these coffins are the mummified bodies of dead children. She fights tooth and nail to get out of the coffin and when she does, the world she finds herself in will floor you. Her arms and legs are pinned down, and there is something biting at her neck. Kind of weird, right? Holy crap this book! The Plot If you love the Hunger Games or The Maze Runner, if you love dystopias, if you love mysteries, thrillers, survival books, or Lord of the Flies this story is for you.

It’s just so close yet so far away from anything that is going on in trending teen lit, and I will be so angry with the general populace of readers if they do not pick up this book and devour it as fast as I did.Īlive by Scott Sigler. I picked it up and started reading and would get so into it that I would have find myself accidentally reading the next page, because I couldn’t wait to find out what happened on the page I was on.

Alive by Scott Sigler