come alive vs come to life

come alive

verb
  • to become responsive and animated. 

come to life

verb
  • to appear as if alive 

  • to bring back to life; revitalize, revive, resurrect 

  • to start to become energetic. 

  • to become alive; to be brought into existence 

How often have the words come alive and come to life occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )