Squid Game meets Dear Justyce in an explosive young adult novel about a teenage girl on death row who competes on a reality show in hopes of winning her freedom.
Last Chance Live! is the most popular reality show in America—and eighteen-year-old death row inmate Eternity Price’s last chance to live. Getting cast on the show could win her clemency preventing her execution… if she can convince the viewing audience she deserves a second chance. The catch? If America doesn’t vote for her, she loses the chance to appeal her sentence, and she’ll be executed within a week of being eliminated from the show. And since Eternity’s been unpopular her whole life, she’s terrified America won’t pick her. But any chance of getting out of prison and back to her little brother Sincere, no matter how slim, is better than rotting away in her cell.
Eternity never expected to find her first real friends in a reality TV house full of people battling for survival after being convicted of capital crimes, but that’s exactly what happens. So when she gets the opportunity to sabotage them and secure her own victory, she has a choice to make: protect the friendships and acceptance she’s always longed for at the cost of her own life, or sacrifice her newfound community. Eternity must ultimately decide what forgiveness, family, and freedom mean to her, and how far she’ll go to win a game where the stakes are literally life or death.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Last Chance Live! is the most popular reality show in America—and eighteen-year-old death row inmate Eternity Price’s last chance to live. Getting cast on the show could win her clemency preventing her execution… if she can convince the viewing audience she deserves a second chance. The catch? If America doesn’t vote for her, she loses the chance to appeal her sentence, and she’ll be executed within a week of being eliminated from the show. And since Eternity’s been unpopular her whole life, she’s terrified America won’t pick her. But any chance of getting out of prison and back to her little brother Sincere, no matter how slim, is better than rotting away in her cell.
Eternity never expected to find her first real friends in a reality TV house full of people battling for survival after being convicted of capital crimes, but that’s exactly what happens. So when she gets the opportunity to sabotage them and secure her own victory, she has a choice to make: protect the friendships and acceptance she’s always longed for at the cost of her own life, or sacrifice her newfound community. Eternity must ultimately decide what forgiveness, family, and freedom mean to her, and how far she’ll go to win a game where the stakes are literally life or death.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Praise for this book
"This is quite frankly a perfect book. Powerful message, masterful storylines, and exquisite writing. If we live in a just world, this candid, reflective and explosive tale of race and reality will remind us all how possible the world of the story is, and how much work we must do to change that. Last Chance Live! is a chilling classic." - Kwame Alexander
"Last Chance Live! takes readers on a deeply humanizing journey of a teen on death row competing in a reality tv show to earn freedom. Told through past and present vignettes with biting intellect and moments of aching humanity, Henry confronts the machinery of identity, justice and youth with chilling clarity. Unrelenting, darkly funny, and quietly hopeful, this book demands to be read - and remembered." - J Elle
"Last Chance Live! takes readers on a deeply humanizing journey of a teen on death row competing in a reality tv show to earn freedom. Told through past and present vignettes with biting intellect and moments of aching humanity, Henry confronts the machinery of identity, justice and youth with chilling clarity. Unrelenting, darkly funny, and quietly hopeful, this book demands to be read - and remembered." - J Elle
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