Alive (The Generations Trilogy, #1)
345 Pages
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: July 14, 2015
It is an unusual premise. A girl wakes up on what she believes is her 12th birthday. To her horror, she finds herself in a coffin. After breaking out, she hears another girl waking up too. They have different symbols in their foreheads. It is clear that they are older than 12. Their clothes are too small as if they had grown in the coffins. The two of them help the others get out of their coffins and they go looking for food and water.
They are in a type of building full of hallways. In other the rooms, they find more coffins or piles of bones. Loud marching alerts them to other survivors. The two groups merge into one and select a leader. The survivors are known as the Birthday Children. They have a scepter covered in jewels, a spear, and a knife and must use them to escape. They go looking for a way out and find monsters.
This is the first book I have ever read by this author and the first in the Generations Trilogy. If you like dystopian novels like Lord of the Flies, Divergent, and the Hunger Games, you will enjoy this book. It is definitely a story of survival.
