Book Review: Firstlife by Gena Showalter

Publish Date: February 23, 2016
475 Pages [Kindle edition]
Published by Harlequin Teen


Synopsis:
ONE CHOICE.
TWO REALMS.
NO SECOND CHANCE.

Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live—after she dies.

There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death.

In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she’s drawn to isn’t home to the boy she’s falling for? She just has to stay alive long enough to make a decision…

My Thoughts:
I was gifted an ebook via Netgalley.
And this one is officially going to the DNF pile at 40%. I have read Gena Showalter before and I don't remember her writing being like this. Part of me really enjoys the story, but I can't deal with the dialogue and interaction between Tenley and Killian/Archer. Both boys are trying to be that cute annoying stereotypical sexist pig and it's rough, guys. I want to like this book. I want to finish it, but I cannot do it. I have never felt so compelled to highlight passages that I was rolling my eyes at. That were so bad that I wanted to share them. I think a lot of this could have been edited to make it more readable, less eye-rolling. The bones of the book have such potential.

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