As a result the burden of deeper characterization rests on any future novels. While towards the end of the novel the characters’ individual natures begin to feel a bit more realized the novel’s tendency to lean on the mystery of the characters’ surroundings and identities it means that the characters themselves feel sort of like blank slates.
I would have loved a bit more of a denouement as the novel’s cliffhanger ending left me far too unsatisfied. Having read Alive in roughly a day I will say that its nearly four hundred pages still feels all too short. While this makes the action, and often horror that surrounds it, feel all the more thrilling when Alive drags, particularly during its first third, it really does drag. The balance between frenetic action scenes and confused wandering is weighted strongly towards the latter. While I did enjoy the exploration portion of the novel there was a point where I felt things began to drag. When the big reveal does finally happen there was definitely a bit of forehead slapping on my part. Sigler has set up a fascinating environment and as more and more of the environment the characters have found themselves in is revealed the mystery only seems to deepen. I love a good mystery and the ominous tone of the novel works extraordinarily well. Alive is a novel that is targeted a bit towards the teen crowd and I can’t help but think the audience limited the places that Sigler could go with his story.Īlive is a difficult novel to talk about since it relies so heavily on the surprise of its story. In previous works Sigler doesn’t shy away from violence and while that is still true here it is certainly less graphic than in previous works (but can anything really top Perry’s sections in Infected?). Exciting, thrilling, and eminently readable Alive is not a novel without its issues. I started Alive and didn’t stop reading until I finished. And as they slowly come to understand what this prison is, they realize that the worst and strangest possibilities they could have imagined don’t even come close to the truth. The farther these survivors travel, the worse are the horrors they confront. She frees the others in the room and leads them into a corridor filled with the remains of a war long past.
With only her instincts to guide her, she escapes her own confinement-and finds she’s not alone. She has no idea who she is or how she got there. The premise of the novel is fascinating:Ī young woman awakes trapped in an enclosed space. I’ve enjoyed his previous work, especially the Infected series, so I’m always willing to read whatever he has written. I read Alive by Scott Sigler while on my honeymoon in April.
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