A review by bookgirl4ever
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

3.0

Darcy is a teenager who writes an entire novel during NaNoWriMo--and Paradox Publishing loves it! After she graduates from high school, she has her mathematical genius sister create a budget from the advance money, and moves to Manhattan to write. Darcy's experience is a dream, despite her worries (that everything in her novel was stolen from someone else-her family's Hindu religion, Jane Austen, her lesbian girlfriend, etc.). I suspect Darcy embodies the general writing experience, shoved into one person. Darcy's chapters alternate between those of the finished novel she wrote. Not the best Westerfeld by any means. There is a slice of his readers who will appreciate this novel.

New adult.