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Afterlife Academy (2013)

by Jaimie Admans(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1493515152 (ISBN13: 9781493515158)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Createspace

review 1: I'm actually quite torn over this book...I loved the idea and overall the storyline was a nice easy read which tackled the "can people change?" Question.The suggestion of having to go to school after you died would probably be most kids' nightmare but I think attending Afterlife Academy would be quite fun.The two lead characters portrayed a believe able relationship which grew and changed throughout and apart from Riley's annoying obsession with her still breathing boyfriend it's nice to see her trying to adapt to the changes and watch her battle with her feeling for Antony.Now then... Most of the time I enjoyed reading this book but one thing that really started to grate on me was repetition. Within the first few chapters I was already sick of the colour grey. "Grey...gr... moreeyness...greygrey" every other sentence and I know it's difficult to describe a colour without using the name of that colour but all I could think was "EVERYTHING IS GREY!!" Later in the book I found the same repetitive problem with other things, such as how much she misses Wade... It felt like the book could have half of it removed and still tell the story.I realised I was grinning like a teenage girl at the end and so decided I must've enjoyed it enough to get to the end and feel happiness for these characters.
review 2: In popular culture, young dead girls usually spell trouble, especially if they had been chosen queen of the prom before they died. We know this from films like Carrie and Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. And even if they happened not to be the belle of the ball, at the very leaat, they hang around the girls' lavatory whining about their sorry lot to whomever will listen.Well, Riley Richardson is not a prom queen, although that's more an accident of circumstance than anything. (Had she lived in America, she tells us, she would no doubt have been one.) But she was at the top of the pecking order in her school, going out with a hunk she absolutely adored. People were fawning all over her and life was sweet. Until she died, that is. Now she's stuck at a weird version of her old school, where the staff is understanding in a creepy, ever-vigilant and near-omniscient sort of way, and her only friend is a woman with horns. There are all kinds of restrictions and hardly any perks--one of the few being that you can eat whatever you want without getting fat. That aside, the afterschool afterlife (as it were) is not much fun. This definitely ain't Hogwarts, folks.Despite the fact that she is now deceased, Riley is still a typical schoolgirl, who hates classes, distrusts authority figures and craves the popularity she had in her former life. Even though she is shallow, in Jaimie Admans' hands, we see that she has her problems too, and we even get to like her. And along the way, there are lessons about confronting the mistakes one has made in one's life, and about the sheer wickedness of being cruel to those who deserve some sympathy. less

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