Dev1At3 (Deviate): 2 (Lifel1K3)

Product Description From Bestselling Author Jay Kristoff Comes The Second Installment In The Lifel1K3 Trilogy--Hailed By Marie Lu As A Breathless, Action-Packed Exploration Of What Humanity Really Means. In The Wake Of A Climactic Battle In The Ruined City Of Babel, Two Former Best Friends Suddenly Find Themselves On Opposite Sides Of The Same Quest. Eve Is Torn Between The Memories Of The Girl She Was, And The Synthetic SheS Discovered Herself To Be. Together With Her Lifelike Siblings, Eve Sets Out To Find The Real Ana Monrova, Whose Dna Is The Key To Building An Army Of Lifelikes. Meanwhile, EveS Best Friend, Lemon, Is Coming To Terms With A Power That She Has Long Denied--And That Others Want To Harness As A Weapon. When She Meets A Strange Boy Named Grimm, He Offers To Lead Her Out Of The Horror-Ridden Landscape And To An Enclave Of Other Abnorms Like Herself. There, Lemon Quickly Finds A Sense Of Belonging--And Perhaps Even Love--Among The Other Genetic Deviates. But All Is Not What It Seems, And With Enemies And Friends, Heroes And Villains Wearing Interchangeable Faces, Lemon, Too, Will Join The Race To Locate Ana Monrova Before Her Former Best Friend Can Get To Her. About The Author Jay Kristoff Is Thenew York Times And Internationally Bestselling Author Of The Lotus War, The Illuminae Files, And The Nevernight Chronicle. He Is The Winner Of Five Aurealis Awards And An Abia, Was A Nominee For The David Gemmell Morningstar And Legend Awards, Has Been Named Multiple Times To Thekirkus Reviews And Amazon Best Teen Books Lists, And Is Published In Over Twenty-Five Countries, Most Of Which He Has Never Visited. He Is As Surprised About All Of This As You Are. He Is 67 And Has Approximately 13,030 Days To Live. He Resides In Melbourne With His Secret-Agent, Kung-Fu Assassin Wife And The WorldS Laziest Jack Russell. He Does Not Believe In Happy Endings. Follow Jay On Jaykristoff.Com Or At @Misterkristoff. Excerpt. Reprinted By Permission. All Rights Reserved. Are These People Defective? Lemon Fresh Winced As Another Explosion Burst Against Their Hull. The World Shook And Her Brainmeats Ached And She Was Beginning To Wonder If Getting Up This Morning Had Been Such A Fizzy Idea. The Heavy Armor They Were Encased In Held Fast, But The Boom Was Still Deafening, Echoing Around Her Skull. She Could Barely Hear EzekielS Shout From The DriverS Seat Below. Their Rockets Seem To Be Working Just Fine! Lemon Pulled Her Helmet Down Harder, Yelling Over The Splodies. Dimples, When You Convinced Me To Jack This Thing, It Was On The Understanding That NobodyD Be Stupid Enough To Pick A Fight With A Tank! I DidnT Think Anyone Was! Another Explosion Burst Against Their Roof, And Lemon Held On To Her GunnerS Seat For Dear Life. Okay, I Hate To Be The One To Break This To You, But-- Look, If YouRe That Worried, You Could Always Shoot Them Back! IM Fifteen Years Old! I Dunno How To Shoot With A T-- Another Explosion Cut LemonS Sentence Off, But From The Swearing She Heard Down In The DriverS Cabin, She Was Pretty Sure Zeke Got The Gist. She Looked Into The Vidscreens At Her GunnerS Controls, Heart Sinking As She Noticed Their Hull Was Now On Fire, That Another Rocket Team Had Joined The First In Trying To Murderize Them, And Finally Decided That, Yeah, Crawling Out Of Bed Today? Really Bad Move. WeRe Allllll Gonna Die, She Muttered. ItD Seemed Like A Pretty Sensible Plan At The Time, Too. . . . TheyD Motored From Babel Tower Less Than Five Hours Ago, And Talking True, Lemon Was Still Trying To Wrap Her Head Around It All. The Throwdown With Gabriel And His Lifelikes. The Blood On The Chrome. The Murder Of Silas Carpenter. The Look In EveS Eyes As The Bullet Wounds In Her Chest Slowly Knitted Closed. WhatS Happening To Me? Lemon Had Thought Of Silas As Her Own Grandpa, And The Memory Of His Death Was A Fresh, Har