Alive

This is probably not going to take the world by storm– but there will be mid-grade or preteen readers who read it and connect with it and it will be their quiet favorite even into adulthood.

The blurb compares it to The Hunger Games but this more Lord of the Flies– if Lord of the Flies was about a multicultural, multi gendered group of amnesiac kids. (And I have to note that the Aztec cultural nods gave a note of world building in a book that is mostly bereft of in-universe cultural touchstones).

There was repetition and a few plot holes that caught my attention, but this is a book for someone less than half my age and I can see 12 year old me loving it to pieces.