A review by pacifickle
Behind the Bookcase by Mark Steensland

3.0

The Books of Elsewhere meet Dante's Inferno with a dash of Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe-- Sarah's grandmother dies, and the family goes to sort out the house to sell it. Sarah soon discovers her Grandmother was not deluded and creepy, as her mother feels, but a gatekeeper of the dead, sending them to purgatory (Penumbra, in the basement)) until they're sorted into heaven (Ormaz) or hell (Scotopia) which exist between matching bookcases. Sarah's first foray behind the bookcase leads to her meeting a villainous cat, snowballing the plot into solving one problem after another to get everything back in the right world.