This Mortal Coil: Emily Suvada (This Mortal Coil, 1)

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Thank you so much to Tig Wallace & Penguin UK for providing me with an advance reader's copy in exchange for an honest review! This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada is a refreshing new dystopia/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic story that grabbed me from the start until the very end, and left me gasping with the many twists and turns. In any case, this has a bit of a Walking Dead, vibe, a bit of a Stranger Things vibe, a bit of a Hunger Games with its badass, bad attitude heroine, a bit of an Everything, Everything vibe .... and similar qualities to a lot of trope-y YA books that I didn't write down as I was reading. stars. This was… interesting, and also not my type of book, and kind of disappointing. I honestly think This Mortal Coil is bit of your typical plot-twisty-but-not-very-quality YA sci-fi, and although some things stood out, I just didn’t love it.

Cat thought the Hydra epidemic was over, but when new cases pop up, Cat must team up with an enemy to fix the vaccine before the virus spirals out of control.This book got everything. To name a few, I experienced some razor sharp action, last minute escapes, a lot of seriously great plot twists, powerful dialogues, humour, slow burn romance & that totally unexpected ending! Man! I wasn't prepared for that 😨

Overall, though, I still gobbled up all the action and adventure and science in This Cruel Design, and definitely recommend this book and the whole series for anyone looking for a non-stop, gritty dystopia to read! i just don't see the point in having a romantic relationship when a platonic relationship would do just fine. and why the HELL do boys smell so nice in YA books. sweat doesn't smell nice, it smells like gorillas, mkay? One thing that really makes me think is everyone has ‘healing tech’ built-in and how doctors actually can barely heal you traditionally anymore because they’re so used to just fine-tuning your apps than ‘treating’ you physically. How scary to think that we all get so used to technology and how much we end up depend on it to the point of in danger of losing our learned skills. Such a terrifying thought indeed. Incredibly high stakes. It's the sort of series where no one and nothing feels safe. At any moment, the rug can be pulled out from under any character it seems, and so I was always on the edge of my seat, hoping for a good outcome, but terrified for the worst. Definitely tons of good tension. The one thing that annoyed me mildly was the romantic storyline, which I thought was a little unnecessary. But that's probably just my romance-aversion talking.Ahhhhh..... well this seems to be a polarizing kind of book. My GR feed: "This book is my favorite/coolest sci-fi of this year/all time" Also my GR feed: "This has flat characters and a love triangle and is very slow..." What to do? Try it I guess....

God Grante That She Lye Stille" was adapted in 1961 by Robert Hardy Andrews as an episode of the anthology TV series Thriller.The obvious upside of this book is that it is just... really wild. The broad concept of worldbuilding is sort of terrifying — I mean, a disease that causes people to explode and leads those in the vicinity to try and eat them? Holy shit. Suvada is truly not afraid to get into the gore of the premise, meaning things get kind of hardcore — someone gets their ear bitten off? There are so many twists and reveals that I’m sure you’ll be surprised somewhere, including a twist in act three that I… okay, I did see it coming, but I liked it anyway. If you drive a car, you don't become a car. You're always just the driver. Don't buy into the vehicle of your own flesh."Cat is very much torn between who she believes herself to be and the person of her past that she cannot remember, and the plot is centered on that uncertainty. On whether or not the ends ever justify the means.