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It started with a bus crash.
Daisy Appleby was a little girl when it happened, and she barely remembers the accident or being brought back to life. At that moment, though, she became one of the first subjects in a covert government program that tests a drug called Revive.
Now fifteen, Daisy has died and been Revived five times. Each death means a new name, a new city, and a new identity. The only constant in Daisy's life is constant change.
Then Daisy meets Matt and Audrey McKean, charismatic siblings who quickly become her first real friends. But if she's ever to have a normal life, Daisy must escape from an experiment that's much larger-and more sinister-than she ever imagined.
From its striking first chapter to its emotionally charged ending, Cat Patrick's Revived is a riveting story about what happens when life and death collide.
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School Library Journal-Rezension
Gr 7 Up- When the story opens, freshman Daisy Applebee, 15, has died-again-and will wake up the next day in Omaha, Nebraska, where she will be enrolled in a new high school as Daisy West. Daisy has been part of a secret government program since the bus accident that took her life when she was little. Every time she dies, she's given a drug called Revive, and then she's off to a new city with a new identity. Having moved several times, she rarely makes friends. But this time she meets Matt and Audrey McKean. Audrey has cancer, and Daisy and Matt put Revive to the test and uncover dark secrets about the program. While some listeners may find it unsettling that the head of the program is referred to as God and the workers are called Disciples, others will see that this helps to uphold the science-fiction element. Cat Patrick's story (Little, Brown, 2012) is seamlessly narrated by Tara Sands who gives each character a unique voice, making Daisy sarcastic and somber at times, while Matt's desperation to help his sister is reflected. Public and school libraries won't want to pass on this one as there are several plot twists in this romantic mystery.-Karen Alexander, Lake Fenton High School, Linden, MI (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
Daisy is a dead girl-several times over. Not yet 16, she's been resurrected five times. She is part of a secret government program for testing an experimental drug, Revive, which can bring otherwise healthy accident victims to life again. Reanimation is not easy to keep under wraps, and with every death comes a move to a new school with new secrets to keep. After Daisy's latest demise from anaphylactic shock, that new home is Omaha, Neb. There, she lives with two agents who pose as her parents while keeping strict watch over Daisy's health and operating a supercomputing lab in the basement. Despite this, Daisy moves freely at school, hangs out with her friend Audrey, and falls in love with Audrey's brother, Matt. Credulity is strained by Daisy's propensity for accidents, necessitating repeated use of Revive; nevertheless, Patrick (Forgotten) carries this improbability off with her fluid and observant prose. Daisy evolves from a detached and conformist drone to a young woman with budding emotions, attachments, and a deeper understanding of what it means to live and die. Ages 12-up. Agent: Daniel Lazar, Writers House. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book-Rezension
Daisy has known she was part of a secret government experiment for years, and she is used to the routine that whenever she dies and is Revived, she must pack up and move to another location. Her guardians are agents who keep her alive, help her readjust to new places, and study her carefully for the physical and psychological effects of being brought back from the dead. Daisy is surprisingly well adjusted, though she wearies of new starts, particularly after her latest home yields her first best friend and a boyfriend (conveniently packaged into one set of twins). Secrets about the actual origins of this experiment and the mysterious man who runs it and the beginnings of real insight into how she might be viewed in the world shape Daisy, pushing her casual naivet into something more somber, but also something far more aware and powerful. The first-person narration is effective, particularly as the mystery elements slowly emerge; readers may jump beyond Daisys limited knowledge to make some guesses, but they will also be sympathetic to her clumsy sleuthing as she tries to unwrap things upon which her life depends. Offer this to sci-fi buffs who are seeking a quick read, or romance fans who dont mind science experiments mixed in with their love stories. april spisak (c) Copyright 2012. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus-Rezension
A well-done exploration of a teen's growing understanding of death, even though she herself has died five times. Daisy lives with two agents from the ultra-secret Revive project. Revive is a drug that can bring people back from the dead, and Daisy was first revived after she died with 20 other children in a bus accident. Severely allergic to bees, she's stung and dies again, forcing the "family" to relocate to Omaha with a different last name. Daisy wants to stay in Omaha after she meets Audrey, a girl who quickly becomes a real friend, and Audrey's brother Matt, to whom Daisy finds herself irresistibly attracted. But Daisy learns that Audrey has terminal cancer, and she knows that Revive can't help her friend. Although the story turns suspenseful when Daisy discovers a previously unknown Revive case, the overriding thrust is its examination of human emotions. Once Audrey dies, Daisy must confront the reality of death, no matter her own experience. Patrick writes an easily readable story that moves well and populates it with attractive characters. The added dimension of Audrey's real, irreversible death contrasting with Daisy's experience gives the story more gravity than the usual suspense fare. Good entertainment with some unexpected depth. (Science fiction. 12 up)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist-Rezension
Daisy Appleby is 16 and on her fifth life. As part of the God Project, her handlers use an experimental drug called Revive to bring her back each time she dies, and then she is whisked off to a new city to avoid suspicion. In Omaha, Daisy begins to put down roots. Her joy at finally making real connections is tempered with the possibility of losing them, making Daisy someone readers will care about. Her first-person point of view adds immediacy to her discovery of true friendship with Audrey and first love with Audrey's brother, Matt. But Audrey is ill and Daisy grapples with an impossible choice: try to help and blow her cover, or keep her secret and watch her best friend die. All the while she is trying to stay one step ahead of a shadowy conspiracy that threatens everything she has ever known about herself. Patrick's (Forgotten, 2011) second novel is a fast-paced page-turner that explores the familiar moral ground often found at the heart of speculative fiction.--Osborne, Charli Copyright 2010 Booklist
