The Everafter
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061776793 (0061776793)
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
Well, this one was quite the book. I don't know how to approach it exactly because I did enjoy it, yet at the same time still had criticisms about it. I think I know what Huntley was going for and she got across her message fairly well, though it was a bit stretched out, in my opinion. The beginning...
I just finished this book, and I have mixed feelings about it. Things I loved: the whole take on the afterlife - the insights into how we hang onto objects - the revisiting of events to view them from a different perspective. Things I didn't love: the returning to an infant stages (really awful i...
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This book deserves at least 4.5 stars, but I just can't give it 5. I will tell you why: Lost objects? Hmm. And the end just seemed a little too typical. But let's not start there. Let's start at the beginning, where a girl doesn't know where she is or who she is, just that she's dead. She sees all t...
The summary turned out to be better than the book. Kudos to whoever wrote that blurb. The idea of a dead protagonist examining and maybe even altering her past life sounds just as intriguing as an example in non chronological storytelling. Unfortunately for Amy Huntley and this book I've recently re...