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Life2
Astrid was brought back to restore balance in the city. Cursed with a past she can barely remember, she fills her role as an assassin with ease. Astrid realizes she knows dangerously little about the place she lives and the people she kills for. As her trigger finger begins to fail her, she fears she might be labeled as Unworthy next. When an enigmatic doctor draws her into a rebellion, she won't just have to save the city - she will also have to decide what it truly means to be human.
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294 pages, Hardcover
Published September 4, 2020
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About the author
Aisha Tritle
7 books39 followersAisha Tritle is a novelist, playwright, actress, entertainment analyst, and AI enthusiast. Spending her childhood in Arizona, she was active in the performing arts - which led to her moving to Los Angeles at the age of eighteen to pursue a career in entertainment. She has studied with famed acting coach John Kirby and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Turning her hand to plays, she completed two One-Act Comedies in 2016: both of which have been published in the U.K.
Aisha currently spends her days as a research consultant for film studios and fulfilling her passion of writing novels. Her techno-thriller novelette Endgame was released by Kyanite Publishing in February, and her novel Life2 will be also be released by Kyanite later this year.
Aisha currently spends her days as a research consultant for film studios and fulfilling her passion of writing novels. Her techno-thriller novelette Endgame was released by Kyanite Publishing in February, and her novel Life2 will be also be released by Kyanite later this year.
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September 15, 2020
“Everyone deserves to live life in its beautiful, terrible entirety.”
(Aisha Tritle drops some extremely quotable lines in this book.)
Disclaimer: I received an Advance Review Copy of Life 2 through BookSirens for free, in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.
In the world of Life2, the Infirmum disease has killed all children and destroyed the population’s ability of ever having more children. The adult survivors of the world are given a choice: to die in a broken world; or to give up their memories, identity and world for eternal youth. Astrid, our protagonist, chose eternal youth. All she has of her past life is the vague memory that she had a husband who she remembers she loved - but not who he was. She has no feelings for her past life. She has few feelings at all, something helpful to her job as an assassin for the Office of Regulation (the OR). The OR’s priority is ensuring nobody disrupts the peaceful balance of the world - people are often returned or done away with completely. The opening chapter of Life2 hooked me in.
There are two main storylines in Life2 that come together neatly at the end: a thrilling plot for a revolution to overturn the stifling dystopian society (told from the confused and frustrated perspective of an outsider thrown into the thick of it), and Astrid’s story of finding (and re-defining) love and meaning in her new life.
The world is established clearly and with very little fuss. I found it quick and easy to understand the world and the technology, and I really enjoyed how fleshed out Astrid’s world was. Aisha Tritle does a great job of setting the scene and the history while keeping it relevant to the plot and without stumbling unnecessarily into paragraphs of proud worldbuilding exposition.
Life2 is a self-contained novel but leaves the door open and banging in the breeze for a sequel or several (or a prequel!), which I would gladly read. I could totally picture this as a fun sci-fi action movie for a Saturday night in.
The revolutionary plot was an interesting read and mostly left me feeling as dazed as Astrid up until the end - where a cliffhanger promises a potentially much more interesting prequel. I liked the evolution of Astrid’s character over the book.
I like romance stories well enough but I got vertigo from the romance plot. Astrid is an easy character to empathise with, and most of the characters are full and complex and interesting, but I started getting confused on where people stood with each other. Astrid draws a boundary on a relationship that seems to rapidly vanish a few pages later - there was little consequence or tension from what I thought would be a much bigger event. The love triangle is otherwise drawn out well throughout the book (particularly once we get much further into this story), and I’m keen to see what happens in a sequel.
Read this if:
- You want a mysterious love triangle with a side of action set in a high-tech futuristic dystopia.
- You might enjoy this if you like Equilibrium or Battlestar Galactica.
(Aisha Tritle drops some extremely quotable lines in this book.)
Disclaimer: I received an Advance Review Copy of Life 2 through BookSirens for free, in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.
In the world of Life2, the Infirmum disease has killed all children and destroyed the population’s ability of ever having more children. The adult survivors of the world are given a choice: to die in a broken world; or to give up their memories, identity and world for eternal youth. Astrid, our protagonist, chose eternal youth. All she has of her past life is the vague memory that she had a husband who she remembers she loved - but not who he was. She has no feelings for her past life. She has few feelings at all, something helpful to her job as an assassin for the Office of Regulation (the OR). The OR’s priority is ensuring nobody disrupts the peaceful balance of the world - people are often returned or done away with completely. The opening chapter of Life2 hooked me in.
There are two main storylines in Life2 that come together neatly at the end: a thrilling plot for a revolution to overturn the stifling dystopian society (told from the confused and frustrated perspective of an outsider thrown into the thick of it), and Astrid’s story of finding (and re-defining) love and meaning in her new life.
The world is established clearly and with very little fuss. I found it quick and easy to understand the world and the technology, and I really enjoyed how fleshed out Astrid’s world was. Aisha Tritle does a great job of setting the scene and the history while keeping it relevant to the plot and without stumbling unnecessarily into paragraphs of proud worldbuilding exposition.
Life2 is a self-contained novel but leaves the door open and banging in the breeze for a sequel or several (or a prequel!), which I would gladly read. I could totally picture this as a fun sci-fi action movie for a Saturday night in.
The revolutionary plot was an interesting read and mostly left me feeling as dazed as Astrid up until the end - where a cliffhanger promises a potentially much more interesting prequel. I liked the evolution of Astrid’s character over the book.
I like romance stories well enough but I got vertigo from the romance plot. Astrid is an easy character to empathise with, and most of the characters are full and complex and interesting, but I started getting confused on where people stood with each other. Astrid draws a boundary on a relationship that seems to rapidly vanish a few pages later - there was little consequence or tension from what I thought would be a much bigger event. The love triangle is otherwise drawn out well throughout the book (particularly once we get much further into this story), and I’m keen to see what happens in a sequel.
Read this if:
- You want a mysterious love triangle with a side of action set in a high-tech futuristic dystopia.
- You might enjoy this if you like Equilibrium or Battlestar Galactica.
August 31, 2020
In a post-apocalyptic era with no children and no way to procreate, humanity has discovered the perfect cure for immortality and beauty in the form of an injection called Curat. A selected few that serve specific purposes are given access to the injection whereas the rest are deemed as ‘Unworthies’ and are killed. The responsibility of killing the Unworthies falls on the shoulders of Astrid, a woman who was brought back from the dead with no memory of her past life. But what will happen when Astrid slowly finds out about a secret rebellion, led by her very own doctor named Michael? As Astrid begins to question the work she does every day to be deemed worthy, she learns more about her past and her secrets. However, recalling memories from a time of famine and loss can be agonizing and Astrid learns that some things may be better left in the dark.
It is rare that I find a sci-fi book mixed with elements of the apocalypse that draws me in completely to the point where I simply cannot put it down. However, Life2 by Aisha Tritle did just that. As I usually lean away from these sci-fi type books because they are complex and difficult to imagine, Life2 had me hooked with its fascinating world and concepts. This book is filled to the brim with suspense at every corner and readers will be bursting with curiosity to get some answers for the many secrets in the book. There is no doubt that the author is clearly a gifted writer as she demonstrates her abilities through her crisp, clear and engaging writing throughout the entire book.
The story of Astrid is absolutely thrilling, to say the least and will have one quickly becoming invested in her development and well-being. Moreover, an intriguing love triangle between the protagonist and two others has also been executed very well. The audience will be completely torn between the characters and this is largely due to Tritle’s skills in storytelling and fleshing out her characters. Moving on, the moral quandaries faced by the characters regarding murder and sacrifice is serious and gripping and causes readers to step back and think about things more deeply. For readers who enjoy thrilling dystopian and sci-fi themed books, Life2 will be a great fit. I absolutely loved reading this book and giving this book five out of five stars is a must for me.
It is rare that I find a sci-fi book mixed with elements of the apocalypse that draws me in completely to the point where I simply cannot put it down. However, Life2 by Aisha Tritle did just that. As I usually lean away from these sci-fi type books because they are complex and difficult to imagine, Life2 had me hooked with its fascinating world and concepts. This book is filled to the brim with suspense at every corner and readers will be bursting with curiosity to get some answers for the many secrets in the book. There is no doubt that the author is clearly a gifted writer as she demonstrates her abilities through her crisp, clear and engaging writing throughout the entire book.
The story of Astrid is absolutely thrilling, to say the least and will have one quickly becoming invested in her development and well-being. Moreover, an intriguing love triangle between the protagonist and two others has also been executed very well. The audience will be completely torn between the characters and this is largely due to Tritle’s skills in storytelling and fleshing out her characters. Moving on, the moral quandaries faced by the characters regarding murder and sacrifice is serious and gripping and causes readers to step back and think about things more deeply. For readers who enjoy thrilling dystopian and sci-fi themed books, Life2 will be a great fit. I absolutely loved reading this book and giving this book five out of five stars is a must for me.
August 28, 2020
This thrilling, past-faced sci-fi novel is perhaps one of the greatest bookish surprises I’ve had all year. I’m not typically the biggest reader of sci-fi, mainly because I find them a bit intimidating and worry that some of the technical aspects of the plot and world-building will be lost on me, but this is certainly not the case with Aisha Tritle’s writing. Clear and concise while still managing to build a world that felt completely believable, I was hooked from the very first chapter and was utterly absorbed throughout.
Life2 follows the tale of Astrid, an assassin more than willing to play her part in ridding the world of ‘Unworthies’ – those deemed as unfit to be a part of the carefully constructed society rebuilt after a deadly sickness wiped out all of Earth’s children. I won’t lie, it was quite scary reading this given the current global situation, but I think that just helped to amplify the stakes a little while I was reading and further add to the tension.
I really loved our main character Astrid – she was so strong and fearless, despite the strange situation that she found herself in! I was rooting for her throughout, and she reminded me a little of Celaena Sardothien from the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.
The plot was thrilling from the offset, and the pacing didn’t let up – I really struggled to put this book down, and could quite easily have flown through it in a single sitting had it not been for other life commitments. It read like a sci-fi movie to me; I could easily picture this on the big screen, which again is a true testament to Tritle’s excellent world-building. I could see and feel this book so clearly in a way that I’m often unable to do with sci-fi novels, so if, like me, this isn’t a genre you would typically reach for I highly recommend you give this one a try – trust me when I saw it is a book you will devour, so make sure you have an evening free as you won’t be able to stop!
Life2 follows the tale of Astrid, an assassin more than willing to play her part in ridding the world of ‘Unworthies’ – those deemed as unfit to be a part of the carefully constructed society rebuilt after a deadly sickness wiped out all of Earth’s children. I won’t lie, it was quite scary reading this given the current global situation, but I think that just helped to amplify the stakes a little while I was reading and further add to the tension.
I really loved our main character Astrid – she was so strong and fearless, despite the strange situation that she found herself in! I was rooting for her throughout, and she reminded me a little of Celaena Sardothien from the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.
The plot was thrilling from the offset, and the pacing didn’t let up – I really struggled to put this book down, and could quite easily have flown through it in a single sitting had it not been for other life commitments. It read like a sci-fi movie to me; I could easily picture this on the big screen, which again is a true testament to Tritle’s excellent world-building. I could see and feel this book so clearly in a way that I’m often unable to do with sci-fi novels, so if, like me, this isn’t a genre you would typically reach for I highly recommend you give this one a try – trust me when I saw it is a book you will devour, so make sure you have an evening free as you won’t be able to stop!
August 26, 2020
Life2 is the new Aisha Tritle’s book and my second time reading her books. I keep being amazed at her level of writing skills. This book was amazing!
The plot is awesome and very different from the usual sci-fi totally crazy kind of books. This one is plausible; the Ice Age theory is also believable and that is why I enjoyed it so much.
Astrid, our main character, is such a badass girl! I kind off wish to be like her, fearless and determined. Her main role is being an assassin, to kill those who are unwanted. She was kind of asleep before and now she was awakened by Michael, a doctor. She suddenly realises, that this new world is different and unknown. She has a bigger role than being assassin, she is the key to the world’s problems, but she doesn’t know it yet.
I couldn’t believe what I was reading, many were the times that I had to take a break otherwise I would devour this book. A five star and once more I am heartbroken that I have read it so fast.
The plot is awesome and very different from the usual sci-fi totally crazy kind of books. This one is plausible; the Ice Age theory is also believable and that is why I enjoyed it so much.
Astrid, our main character, is such a badass girl! I kind off wish to be like her, fearless and determined. Her main role is being an assassin, to kill those who are unwanted. She was kind of asleep before and now she was awakened by Michael, a doctor. She suddenly realises, that this new world is different and unknown. She has a bigger role than being assassin, she is the key to the world’s problems, but she doesn’t know it yet.
I couldn’t believe what I was reading, many were the times that I had to take a break otherwise I would devour this book. A five star and once more I am heartbroken that I have read it so fast.
January 1, 2021
Life2 by Aisha Tritle is a dystopian science-fiction novel revolving around the life and memories of Astrid Rayner, an assassin. Astrid is bought back into life to maintain balance in the city. She lost almost all the memories of her past life when she is renewed. She works for a mysterious organization known as the Office of Regulations (OR) headed by Mr. Winters. She has purpose in this renewed life, to assassinate “unworthy” persons who broke the rules. Although she is confused with haunting rudimentary memories from her past-life now and then, she eases into her role as a perfect and merciless assassin to fill the hole. She has been bought back into this new life for almost a year and the one thing that scares her most is whether she will be marked as unworthy and eliminated or not. Michael, an enigmatic doctor who seems to be particularly interested in Astrid quickly draws her attention. With this newfound company, she slowly realizes the truth about herself and the world she lives in.
Life2 is a reminder to the world that how quickly injustice can take over humanity. At the time of adversity, humans will eventually let go of their morality to survive. A world without vision will be ruled by injustice. But we will choose to accept this future-less matrix rather than thrive for a better tomorrow. This invaluable message is beautifully conveyed through this story.
The author has developed every character with care and passion, especially Astrid. The story is told through her point of view. So it is essential to build a character with an equal amount of vulnerability and courage. She is somewhat scared and confused at the beginning of the story. But she is gradually transformed into a strong personality as the story progresses. She is trying to conquer her fears by eliminating ignorance.
The whole story is structured just like a rabbit-hole. We could not know what will happen next. It is a perfect thriller this way. Altogether, this is a very enthralling plot that everyone should read once in their life.
Life2 is a reminder to the world that how quickly injustice can take over humanity. At the time of adversity, humans will eventually let go of their morality to survive. A world without vision will be ruled by injustice. But we will choose to accept this future-less matrix rather than thrive for a better tomorrow. This invaluable message is beautifully conveyed through this story.
The author has developed every character with care and passion, especially Astrid. The story is told through her point of view. So it is essential to build a character with an equal amount of vulnerability and courage. She is somewhat scared and confused at the beginning of the story. But she is gradually transformed into a strong personality as the story progresses. She is trying to conquer her fears by eliminating ignorance.
The whole story is structured just like a rabbit-hole. We could not know what will happen next. It is a perfect thriller this way. Altogether, this is a very enthralling plot that everyone should read once in their life.
October 9, 2020
Received as a review copy, this is an honest review. Astrid had once had a life with a husband, the world was filled with children... when a mysterious illness caused the children to no longer to exist; Astrid chose an option of a better future waiting in cryo-sleep. Waking up in a future city where everyone is young by a powerful drug, Astrid finds not only a purpose in helping the city keep its balance but a new person to love. But the more Astrid learns of those individuals that are messing with the balance in the city, the secrets she discovers shatter the beauty and hope that this future was suppose to bring to humanity. Highly recommended.
May 12, 2020
Awesome read!
October 11, 2020
A unique vision of the future
I wasn't sure what to expect with this book, but it sounded interesting and I'm glad I read it. I really enjoyed the unique first person storytelling and getting inside the main character's head as it is so different from books I usually read.
Another element I enjoyed was the unique vision of the future. Early on, I wasn't sure what to expect; everyone is beautiful and there is a form of population control. At first I thought it was something similar to Logan's Run, but, as the story progressed it was clear it was something different and unique. By the time the story ended, I was fully engrossed and am hoping there is a sequel to dive deeper into this world to learn more about its history and its future.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.
I wasn't sure what to expect with this book, but it sounded interesting and I'm glad I read it. I really enjoyed the unique first person storytelling and getting inside the main character's head as it is so different from books I usually read.
Another element I enjoyed was the unique vision of the future. Early on, I wasn't sure what to expect; everyone is beautiful and there is a form of population control. At first I thought it was something similar to Logan's Run, but, as the story progressed it was clear it was something different and unique. By the time the story ended, I was fully engrossed and am hoping there is a sequel to dive deeper into this world to learn more about its history and its future.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.
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