unique book on life after death, Not going to spoil anything but what I loved about it was the ending, I was afraid the author was going to pull one of those cheesy Happily Ever After endings, which wouldn't have fit the book at ALL, But no, it was handled beautifully, it left me with a bittersweet feeling inside, and I was nodding when I closed the book, thinking "yes, that's exactly how it should be.
" I loved it. Highly recommended. This is a fiction book, This is a fiction book, This is a fiction book,
I was constantly having to remind myself this was just story otherwise this would have been extremely depressing,
Bear with me here, . . I'm not trying to get all religious on you, But, man I can't imagine thinking that all was waiting for me in the 'afterlife' was objects I had lost over here and brief moments with the scene where I had lost them.
I can't imagine an "IS" that doesn't have some sort of superior power, To be a book about afterlife without a God of some sort felt a little like "What's the point",
To die at a young age is a serious matter and this book is just too fluffy, It is an emotional subject so how in the world this author just wrote this and I didn't feel hardly anything for the main character is beyond me, Given personal reasons it doesn't take me much to get all sappy or atleast teary eyed when reading about teen death, but this just didn't do it for me.
Blah.
The only character I halfway felt for was Sharon or Shannon, whatever her name was whose mother was a psycho, But, I hated her epilouge!!!!
And, I have to ask, . . why did you choose to put something that looks like ovaries on your book cover Mrs, Huntley
.stars
P, S. who killed her flipping cat!! I don't quite know what to say about this book, . the idea of it had my interest, but the book fell short, I just think that the author took a really simple approach to it, this book could have been apager easily, The description of pretty much every scene was rushed and vague, I'm big on imagery descriptors, and this one lacked that,
The book is targeted towards YA, other than one violent scene it is a middle grade book,
Now I didn't like this book, but I can't hate it, It was just kind of there, Would recommend if you have a high reading challenge I guess, because it was a very easy and quick read, Not mentally stimulating or challenging, Kurz und knapp
Eine sanfte Geschichte, die ich allen Lesern empfehle, die Angst vor dem Tod haben, Das Buch ist sehr kurz und lässt sich durch die episodenhafte Erzählung und den schönen Schreibstil leicht weglesen,
Lang und breit
The Everafter liegt ein tolles Konzept zugrunde, Teenager Maddy ist tot und befindet sich in einer Art Jenseits, Sie weiß nicht wie oder wann sie gestorben ist und wo sie nun ist, Sie hat nur die Gewissheit tot zu sein, Als plötzliche Dinge aus ihrem vergangenen Leben in ihrer Nähe auftauchen, entdeckt sie einen Weg Episoden aus ihrem Leben noch einmal durchzumachen,
Maddys Aufenthalt im selbstbetitelten Is“ quasi das Sein“ wirkte auf mich unheimlich, aber nicht angsteinflößend, In der düsteren Umgebung setzt die Autorin sich gekonnt mit der Frage, was nach dem Tod kommt auseinander und bietet ein hoffnungsvolle Lösung an, Genau das hat mir extrem gut an The Everafter gefallen, Ich finde die Frage, was nach dem Tod mit einem passiert sehr beängstigend, aber so wie Amy Huntley es beschreibt, wäre es gar nicht so schlimm,
Die Gegenstände in Maddys Is“ lassen sie verschiedenste Momente aus ihrem Leben noch einmal entdecken, Meistens sind das keine einschneidenden Erlebnisse, sondern ganz normale Szenen aus dem Leben eines Kindes und Teenagers, Besonders gelungen fand ich dabei die Schilderung der Gefühle und Beziehungen, Ob es sich nun um das Getröstetwerden von der eigenen Mutter oder die starke Schulter der besten Freundin handelt,
Wem die zusammengewürfelten Alltagsszenen zu langweilig klingen, der verzage noch nicht, Schließlich bleibt da noch das Rätsel um Maddys Tod, das ich mit ihr zusammen aufdecken konnte, Das Mysteriöse macht das Buch spannend, die Auflösung heimst ihm leider einen Minuspunkt ein, da ich sie viel zu übertrieben fand,
Der Epilog reißt zum Glück einiges wieder raus, da er die letzten offenen Fragen beantwortet und einen wunderschönen Ausklang bildet,
Die Unbeantworteten
keine offenen Fragen
Die Kameraden
The Everafter ist leider bisher Amy Huntleys einziges Buch.
Ich werde die Autorin aber im Auge behalten und freue mich auf mehr von ihr,
Die Optik
Bisher ist mir ausschließlich das Cover mit den Orchideen untergekommen, Gut so! Ich finde es fängt perfekt die leicht melancholische Stimmung des Buches und das ernste Thema ein, Na ja und stylisch ist es natürlich auch,
Die Zusatzinformationen
Ich empfehle die Taschenbuchausgabe von Balzer Bray mit der kleinen Extras inside“ Ecke auf dem Cover, Das bedeutet nämlich, dass
es im Anhang noch allerhand Zusatzinformationen gibt, Dazu zählen eine Stellungnahme und ein Interview mit der Autorin, sowie eine Kurzgeschichte über einen Nebencharakter,
Der Doppelgänger
David Levithans Marlys Ghost erzählt ebenfalls von Verlust, Besuchen aus dem Jenseits und einer jungen, intensiven Liebe,
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First, just let me say I had the hardest time finding this book in here or on Google because the ARC is called "The After", not the "Everafter", which sounds worse, I think.
Anyway, this book is alright, It's actually sort of depressing not just because the story is about a girl who is dead and figuring her way around the afterspace she's in, It sort of winds up with this point that everyone is going to die anyway, and we just live in our memories, and pretty much every moment we have alive, we are also dead at the same time because the memory is still there of us alive while we can see it when we're dead.
So then what the hell is the point of life and all that! So yeah, this sends my head into an not happy place, and gives me the same fears of "what if there's nothing, just emptiness and blankness everywhere" that used to grip me as a child lying in bed at night.
So the three comes from the fact that all that I just said was prompted by this little bundle of words, amazing book. It was hard for me to get into this book until aboutpages from the end, It took meordays to read it, and every night I picked it back up I only vaguely remembered what had previously been written, I think that had a lot to do with the storyline jumping around from different time periods in Maddy's life,
The ending though, you don't see it coming until it starts being played out, Pretty unpredictable which was nice, A very interesting idea coupled with a moreoftenthannot irritating main character filed with OMGProblems and very, very short chapters equals out to a decent romp in teenage land, To be fair though, I'm pretty sure myyear old would, like, tots luv how Amy, like, gets her, In the words of Roger Murtaugh, "I'm too old for this sht", The Everafter was a pleasant surprise, I seem to gravitate towards the book even after I finished,
The Everafter talks of the afterlife hence the title and what to expect, Despite the philosophical upbringings the book still manages to have the hidden sparkle of sweet, sad, and sultry, We follow Madison as journeys back to her life from ageto the infantile stage of googoo gaga to her last moments on earth,
We watch the progression of the relationship with her older sister, This is something all too knowing for me, At the age ofI was already threatening to chop my brother to pieces with me glaring at him at the couch, butcher knife in hand no comment, But just like Madison whom at her later teens the relationship with her sister becomes gentler, I admit that my brother watches out for me, We argue less, fight I really do mean like with pouches less, and become better siblings,
Then we follow Maddy and Gabe as they fall in love, There seems to be more scenes of these two than most, Tender, sweet, and still managing to never overstep the boundary of being just too much,
The ending was weird for me though, I mean yes, I thought it was shocking, but it was this overly dramatic death that left me doubting if something like this can truly happen, The epilogue was a very nice touch though, One that answered a very important question: Boy or girl
Like many others, the first person point of view is very unreliable as many questions are left unanswered.
For example, who was the one that mangled Maddys cat And who ratted Tammy out
Overall: The Everafter was packed full of humor, anguish, and surprise, .
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