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Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity?

Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world’s population.

Seventeen-year-old Janelle “Ellie” Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. Deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, humanity’s emotional transgressions are now grounds for execution. All art, books and creative expression are illegal, but Ellie breaks the rules by keeping a secret library. When a book goes missing, Ellie is terrified that the Ilori will track it back to her and kill her.

Born in a lab, M0Rr1S (Morris) was raised to be emotionless. When he finds Ellie’s illegal library, he’s duty-bound to deliver her for execution. The trouble is, he finds himself drawn to human music and in desperate need of more. They’re both breaking the rules for love of art—and Ellie inspires the same feelings in him that music does.

Ellie’s—and humanity’s—fate rests in the hands of an alien she should fear. M0Rr1S has a lot of secrets, but also a potential solution—thousands of miles away. The two embark on a wild and dangerous road trip with a bag of books and their favorite albums, all the while making a story and a song of their own that just might save them both.

Starting this one soon!

6% - The first chapter was interesting! I've never read a book like that (view spoiler)[with an alien invasion and the humans being forced with all kinds of restricting rules. (hide spoiler)] Can't wait to know more.

21% - (view spoiler)[ I won't lie but I'm having a hard time reading this book. It feels sluggish and all the alien names don't help. (hide spoiler)]

Part one - (view spoiler)[Her second infraction was going to happen sooner or later. I don't really enjoy this book so far even though it has good ideas, I feel like the execution could be better. I'm not into the romance that is going to start soon I'm guessing with that road trip. I don't know how the alien thinks he can save her parents while being away and what he wants to obtain from that road trip. (hide spoiler)]

Part two - (view spoiler)[Still not really enjoying it unfortunately. It's taking me too much effort to go through this book and I don't feel like it's worth it. I'm not connected to the characters and I don't care for the romance. (hide spoiler)]

Finished - Well... I'm done. I didn't enjoy it. All I can say it that the execution of the plot and the writing wasn't great imo. It felt clumsy and could have been better. The ending didn't really make sense to me. I hope you'll have better luck if you decide to give this book a try!

I'm super behind on this, only into chapter two. But so far I'm not totally liking it either. I'm going to try and get this finished tomorrow.

chapter 2(view spoiler)[So these labmade alien type forces seem strange.. I'm definitely waiting to see exactly what they want other than to take over earth. (hide spoiler)]

Kelly wrote: "6% - The first chapter was interesting! I've never read a book like that [spoilers removed] Can't wait to know more."

(view spoiler)[I've read a ton with invading aliens and such and usually it's such a fun and dramatic topic! (hide spoiler)]

Krystal wrote: "Kelly wrote: "6% - The first chapter was interesting! I've never read a book like that [spoilers removed] Can't wait to know more."

[spoilers removed]"

It made me realize I need to read more sci-fi :P

I'm not going to be able to finish this before this month. I will probably start it over in April. BUT, here are some great sci-fi YA's I've read!

Krystal wrote: "I'm not going to be able to finish this before this month. I will probably start it over in April. BUT, here are some great sci-fi YA's I've read!

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Thank you for the recs! I already read Salvage (4 stars) and The Cage (3 stars). I read them in 2015 and it feels like forever ago. I added Alienated and Gravity to my TBR :)