![]() To a different book you'll always be disappointed. Secondly The Lovely Bones andĮlsewhere may both be about young girls experiencing the afterlife but that is where any similarity ends.ĭifferent authors, set in different times. You have to stay true to aĬharacter for them to be believable, and I thought this character was. Of an adult would have made no sense and really wouldn't have worked. Firstly Liz is a young girl and so to use complex language like that Liz, I really loved her, one reviewer said that the writing was too simple for her and compared it to Love it too, but I can't bare to part with my own copy! Its one of those books I loved so much that I've bought copies for friends because I know they'll I don't think I'll ever stop, it'sīeen read so amny times it may fall apart soon and I'll have to buy a new copy. I've read this book so many times and I still love it so much. Reviewed in the United Kingdom □□ on 10 June 2018 ![]() This is still a special book with a wonderful message of hope, and the best version of any kind of afterlife that I've ever read. I may have read this story countless times before and I may be a little old to reread a YA I devoured when I was 9, but I still cried. For a nearly-sixteen-year-old, that's pretty devastating as she hasn't done most of the things she wanted to do with her life and now she has to live it in reverse. The book doesn't take itself too seriously, but it also doesn't gloss over the emotions that Liz is facing when she learns that in the afterlife, she will age backwards until she's reborn. The notion of life after death is a heavy one but Zevin manages to lighten it without trivialising it. I still adore this story, which focuses on Liz, a fifteen-year-old girl who is killed in a hit and run and wakes up to find herself on a boat to the afterlife. It was one of those stories I used to revisit when I needed a read I could rely on, and I just had to reread it now, more than a decade later, when the book jumped back into my brain. This book is a sentimental one for me as it was a favourite back when it was published in 2005. Possibly a classic in later years, but may not suit everyone. I will never forget this book, that when you know you have found a good author,I will recommend this book to everyone. The author has a fantastic talent and writing style, I will DEFINATELY be reading more work from her in the future. Because at first I was shocked, but I kept reading and I have to say I loved it in the end, I will read it again and again. ![]() I recommend this book, but take it for what it is a light hearted fun way at looking at heaven, if you are easily offended read with an open mind. But having said that, it's absolutely brilliant very unique take on a taboo subject, no one really knows what afterlife is like the author has written what she believes heaven to be. ![]() I have recently lost my Dad and was recommended this book to help me, at first I was skeptical by some reviews and have to say I didn't know what to think of it when I read it. It is a novel that tells of sadness with heartbreaking honesty, and of love and happiness with uplifting brilliance.Īt first I have to admit, I thought what am I reading, what a strange book, but as you read on you will see a very light hearted read with brilliant characters and very weird story line, it turns everything upside down what you believe about the afterlife. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? Full of the most ingenious detail and woven around the most touching and charming relationships, this is a novel of hope, of redemption and rebirth. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning. ![]() You can't get sick, and you can't get older. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. Elsewhere is such a book” - The New York Times Book Review _ Welcome to Elsewhere. _ ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME _ “Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. ![]()
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