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A review by krhansen
The Everafter by Amy Huntley
3.0
Madison Stanton knows she has died, but she doesn't know how, where she is, or how she got there. Alone, in a vast, dark space, the only company she has are the luminescent objects of all the items she has lost while alive. She discovers if she touches them, she is returned to the memory atatched to the item and can review parts of her life, and sometimes change them.
The premise of this book is different. Its a fresh spin on the afterlife. I did find it a bit challenging to navigate through, however. The begining is rather chaotic...she is floating in the "IS". She recognizes an object her boyfriend gave her. She touches it and time travels into the moment. This repeats itself over and over with no real plot to anchor her jumps. Once she starts landing on things that produce patterns though, the story picks up and the ending was good. I still wish that more of her life was shown through her object interactions. More questions were created than answered. I strugled to connect with Maddi's character for a long while. And I wasnt sure what I thought of Gabe, until the end. Some of the jumps in time I feel are unneccesary, and do little to nothing to move the story. Some of her perspectives seem skewed with stronger resonses happening at odd times...as she moves through different years of her life, for instance, her responses to thigs at 11 years old seem more mature than some she experiences at 16. She vacillates in a way that seems contradictory.
As the story progresses, so does her need and desire to discover how she died. It was a surprising twist I didnt see coming. That was good. But overall, the book is so-so and I am not sure I could reccomend it. I liked it well enough, but its not a steallar read.
The premise of this book is different. Its a fresh spin on the afterlife. I did find it a bit challenging to navigate through, however. The begining is rather chaotic...she is floating in the "IS". She recognizes an object her boyfriend gave her. She touches it and time travels into the moment. This repeats itself over and over with no real plot to anchor her jumps. Once she starts landing on things that produce patterns though, the story picks up and the ending was good. I still wish that more of her life was shown through her object interactions. More questions were created than answered. I strugled to connect with Maddi's character for a long while. And I wasnt sure what I thought of Gabe, until the end. Some of the jumps in time I feel are unneccesary, and do little to nothing to move the story. Some of her perspectives seem skewed with stronger resonses happening at odd times...as she moves through different years of her life, for instance, her responses to thigs at 11 years old seem more mature than some she experiences at 16. She vacillates in a way that seems contradictory.
As the story progresses, so does her need and desire to discover how she died. It was a surprising twist I didnt see coming. That was good. But overall, the book is so-so and I am not sure I could reccomend it. I liked it well enough, but its not a steallar read.