Oasis: What's the Story

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With their camp wiped away, Alif and the others find themselves lost on the sands, seemingly doomed . . . until they find the oasis. It has everything they need: food, water, shade—and mysterious ruins that hide a deadly secret. As reality begins to shift around them, they question what’s real and what’s a mirage. Oasis is a gripping genre-bending story that will be appreciated by those who like a good adventure book set in a fascinating location. Alif and her five friends are all flawed characters with their own distinct personality (something that becomes very important at the end of the book). The group dynamics was quite complex. Bear in mind, we only get Alif's perspective and, as the book progresses, it becomes clear that she is an unreliable narrator. I need to admit that I have a soft spot for Dystopian YA stories, and I haven't yet been able to decide exactly why. I heard this book was being compared to the Divergent series, and even though that series wasn't all gold that blinks, I felt like I had to read this book as well. But, as it turned out. The covers are the only things that are alike.

Seeing how this is a thriller, this element may be slightly more obvious than the others. When people are presented with crisis situations, how they act reveals some ugly truths that they perhaps didn’t even know about themselves. Is this book to show how instincts can take over any human when survival is at stake? Or, can logic prevail? Oasis” finds a group of friends on an archeological dig in Dubai when a sandstorm rips them from camp and their walk through the desert leads them to an oasis filled with a variety of things that should not exist but then again a group hallucination doesn’t exist either, or does it?Luke - Oh how I loathed Luke. Luke is the kinda guy who thinks he deserves whatever he wants, just because he wants it really bad. WRONG. Take your ego and your entitlement and your ASSHOLERY out into the desert and keep walking until you crumble into the nothingness you really are. Initial thoughts: I've read de Becerra's debut ( What The Woods Keep) and just can't express enough how excited I am about her sophomore book! Why is Winter 2020 so far away??? I will say that the Video Game that shaped most of the storyline for this book was way too confusing for me to understand. How did Phoe know there was a video game in her system somewhere that, if won, could restore all of her knowledge? If Phoe didn’t remember who or what she was, how did she know this? And how in the world does a video game do all of that? Who set the video game up to accomplish what it accomplished? There isn’t enough development on that part of the story for me and I often found myself skimming those parts of the story simply because they didn’t make as much sense as I wanted them to.

Whoa! This was awesome! Even if i felt like i had sand in every nook and cranny when i finished. Lol! I strongly recommend that anyone who is a sci-fi fan read Oasis, the first book in the series “The Last Humans” by Dima Zales. The setting takes place in Oasis, the last hospitable place on Earth after its been destroyed by The Goo, a destructive technology that is duplicated from matter. The book is written in the first person from the dialect of Theo, the main character. Throughout the book, Theo is converses with his imaginary female friend Phoe (pronounced “fee”). The plot unfolded slowly and kept me guessing about five times each chapter where the story will lead from each point of no return. Oasis has left me with more questions than answers. I’m typically fine with having some questions at the end of a book, depending on the book. When a book ends, and leaves me high and dry with figuring out “the moral of the story,” that’s when I have real issues with it. I can’t help but think: Why go through all of that to not have a point? Certainly, to only invoke questions doesn’t give a thorough-enough idea of where the story is leading the reader. I liked this story, it’s writing, style, and content, but I just needed more answers in the end. Then came a series of low reverberating coos - one, two, three. Hush. One, two...The pauses between the cooing sounds felt significant somehow.” Why? Also, the pauses never are significant. Nothing happens with the birds, so why mention it?

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Second, as previously mentioned, the story is written in the first person where Theo is the narrator. When a book is written in the first person, it makes you feel more engaged in the story. In addition, the in depth world building transports the reader further into Theo's world. When a search party rescues them, they return to a world that seems pale and dim by comparison to the vivid intensity of the Oasis. A stolen artifact from their ordeal fractures the group even further when the power of the Oasis follows them home. I was hooked from the very beginning of the novel when we meet Theo and he is not sure if he is going insane, has an imaginary friend or some sort of ghost talking in his ear and reading his thoughts all of the time named Phoe, pronounced "Fi". Lori - Look she was kinda annoying but I think she was supposed to be? Classic giggler who cares more about boys and looking good for boys than anything else. But she was plenty distracted by Rowen so I didn't really have to put up with her too much. I fet a pang in my chest, a whisper of a wildflower unfurling its petals.” TRYING TOO HARD. This is such a silly description.