Things I Learned While I Was Dead

Waking up in 2070 wasn’t part of the plan. Calico vowed to do anything to save her younger sister, Asha, but losing 50 years wasn’t in the deal.

Cryogenically frozen as a teen along with her terminally ill sister, Calico wakes in a locked down facility with four other teens who have also ‘woken’.

Desperate for news of Asha and her recovery, Calico finds many obstacles to overcome. Her doctor is cagey, the security staff violent, and the other teens are dealing with their own stuff.

Learning the truth about Asha, and a family misunderstanding that helped her make the worst decision in her life, Calico faces up to her grief, and the truth. There is even worse revelations to come, underpinning the reasons why she and Asha were frozen 50 years before.

 

Short chapters interspersed with poem-like dreamstate, make Things I Learned While I Was Dead, a fast-paced read. Main character Calico has a fierce and determined personality fighting for any information about her much loved terminally ill sister, Asha.

There is much to learn and reveal about life 50 years after she’s been frozen – in both the science facility she is held in and within her family.  A love interest develops between Calico and a boy named Jem who makes her question everything around her. The truth is more shocking than she ever imagined.

An insight to our possible future is interesting, and not as doom and gloom as one has come to expect in dystopian novels. Maybe there is still time for the world to come together to save not only humans but the planet we live on?

 

Author – Kathryn Clark

Age – 13+

 

 

 

 

 

(2025, Faber, Family, Dystopian, Courage, Friendship, Love, Science, Secret, Sisters, Siblings, Cryogenics, Frozen, Lies, Medical Consent, Future)

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