In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the 
vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.
“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom.”
Pawns in a millennia-old struggle, the young people known only as the Birthday Children were genetically engineered to survive on the planet Omeyocan—but they were never meant to live there. They were made to be “overwritten,” their minds wiped and replaced by the consciousness of the monsters who created them.
Em changed all of that.
She unified her people and led a revolt against their creators. Em and her friends escaped an ancient ghost ship and fled to Omeyocan. They thought they would find an uninhabited paradise. Instead, they found the ruins of a massive city long since swallowed by the jungle. And they weren’t alone. The Birthday Children fought for survival against the elements, jungle wildlife, the “Grownups” who created them . . . and, as evil corrupted their numbers, even against themselves.
With these opponents finally defeated, Em and her people realized that more threats were coming, traveling from across the universe to lay claim to their planet. The Birthday Children have prepared as best they can against this alien armada. Now, as the first ships reach orbit around Omeyocan, the final battle for the planet begins. – Goodreads.com
This has been a thrilling, incredible YA sci-fi series and I’m sorry to see it end – and the way it ended was something I never saw coming in book one.
Seeing the way these characters developed from book one was thrilling and it speaks to the talent of the author that he makes teenagers assuming such mature and critical adult roles so entirely believable. In Alone, these characters have to make hard choices and decisions, come to grips with things they’ve done – and in some cases atone for them, and along the way we lose some. Hated it, but knew it had to happen.
Superb world-building, riveting action sequences, hidden secrets revealed – I wanted to hole up somewhere and hide so many times so I could finish this book, but real life kept creeping in. The ending wasn’t what I wanted or expected – but it felt right for these characters.
Although a YA series, The Generations Trilogy is soooo easily a crossover, so if you think YA sci-fi is ‘just for kids’ – think again. Read this series and stand corrected.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. Alone is scheduled for publication March 7th, 2017.
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Sigler is a very good author. I highly recommend Ancestor by him. It was once described as Predator meets Jurassic Park, and that’s not to bad a description.
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I haven’t read that one – all I needed to see was Jurassic Park and you had me.
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LOL. It seems to be tough to get hold of, but is well worth it. Slow starting, then all Hell breaks loose.
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I saw a review of it by someone I know on Goodreads and she said practically the same thing.
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Aye, that doesn’t surprise me. I know he’s influenced by films, so I wonder if that affected the poaching of it. It did mean that the action has quite the impact when it does kick in though. I read that a sequel is coming too, which makes me happy.
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If there’s a sequel, I need to get moving on the first book.
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You may yet have time, as there’s no set release date for it from what I can tell, just a mention on his site. Still, it’s a good reason to give it a crack 🙂
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“We thought this place was our destiny–not our doom.”
What an excellent tag!
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Isn’t it? And it’s a perfect description.
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Thanks for the intro to Sigler and The Generations series. I only read completed series so this is perfect timing. I love really good characters and the best things about series is seeing them develop. Also a fan of great world building, Teri, so this sounds like a winner all around. 🙂
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I agree – perfect timing! In the first book, I had absolutely no idea what was happening to these kids – and I love it when that happens.
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I like that too. I’m completely fine being left in the dark and trusting the author’s storytelling.
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I agree – really gets the imagination going and builds suspense.
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Check out this review of the book, Alone, by Scott Sigler, from the Books and Such blog
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