This did have one of the more interesting takes on the end of human society as we know it...but unfortunately that didn't mean it was well written.
For full clarity, I read up until page 182 out of 336 pages. This book review is only based on what I managed to finish of the book.
An amazon summary, "16-year-old Frost understands why she's spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters.
She understands why she's never met a human besides her father. She even understands why he forbids her to look for medicine for her dying pet. But the thing is, it's not her real father giving the orders . . .
It's his memories.
Before he died, Frost's father uploaded his consciousness into their robot servant. But the technology malfunctioned, and now her father fades in and out. So when Frost learns that there might be medicine on the other side of the ravaged city, she embarks on a dangerous journey to save the only living creature she loves.
With only a robot as a companion, Frost must face terrors of all sorts, from outrunning the vicious Eaters. . .to talking to the first boy she's ever set eyes on. But can a girl who's only seen the world through books and dusty windows survive on her own?" AMAZON LINK OF JUSTICE
Frost lives in an apartment with her best friend Romes, a broot (like a gigantic wild dog/wolf thing, but not a dire wolf), and their robot Bunt. Her father uploaded his mind into Bunt before his death, so sometimes he can take over Bunt, but he has a very difficult time controlling the robot body. Romes becomes sick, and Frost is determined to leave their apartment and venture out into the desolated streets. Frost "knows" of the dangers outside but has been inside the apartment for as long as she can remember. Determined, Frost is adamant about leaving the apartment to go find a cure for Romes, since well everyone else she ever knew is dead at this point. Did I mention her mom is dead too?
Anyways, they embark on their adventure out into the world, and well, if it weren't for Bunt, Frost would be dead like ten times over. They basically start going through different areas of the world and Frost is encountering the different reactions/happenstances people went through as society fell.
It all sounds really interesting right? The humans even turned into eaters in some cases. Eaters are basically humans with insatiable hunger. They have some kind of mutation that as they start eating themselves (if they can't find anything else to eat) that their wounds basically cauterize quickly enough that they never bleed out. Also, the robots all went crazy or something? And Frost's Dad seems to be the one who invented the robots?
I'm sure there's more to the mystery, and there's more to the book, but I couldn't read anymore. There was too much of this weird belligerent innocence from Frost; like she was constantly unaware of how the world currently existed and was completely caught unawares by every different situation she came across. She's sixteen. I found so much of her innocence to be implausible. Also, in the beginning of the book, Frost is able to see a lot of the city from the missing wall of their apartment. So many of these things should not be surprising to her.
I also disliked how her motivation to leave the apartment was to save Romes, but it felt like her best friend was forgotten over half the time. I had to stop reading, the writing style really struggled to hold my attention. It was just so sterile, even during an emotional reaction. It seemed almost on the level of, "Frost was sad," and that was all you got to understand the emotions of the situation.
So I gave up.
Happy reading!
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