Elsewhere

Elsewhere is one book I definitely do not regret buying!

Reader reviewed by GBC

Elsewhere is a fantastic spin on the afterlife.  When Liz is hit by a hit and run driver, she "awakes" on a large cruise ship headed toward Elsewhere.  Over the course of the ride, she realizes she is dead.  When she arrives in Elsewhere, Liz meets her grandmother (who died before she was born) and goes to live with her.  Elsewhere is a lot like here, except that people age backwards and ultimately return to be reincarnated.  During her time in Elsewhere, Liz is forced to grow up as she grows younger, falls in love, and ultimately comes to term with her death.

This book explores life after death as well as the real relationships between people.  Why should love be any different in the afterlife?

Reader reviewed by Bianca

In the book Elsewhere Liz dies at a young age.  She awakes to find herself on a boat.  Liz has no idea where she is or that she is dead.  She finds some special people and figures her death out.  The boat is nearing Shore and Liz begins her journey, living her life after death backwards!

This book was great.  It gets your mind thinking  I thought it was sad the but the whole book had a point to it.  Everyone is always asking if there's life after death right?  Well, read this book and you'll have one idea how your life will be after dying.

Reader reviewed by Adriana M.

I read this via an audio CD version. The narrator was great; she really captured the voice and feeling of the main character. The story centers around almost-fifteen year old Liz. It starts out with her death after she is hit by a taxi cab while riding her bike to the mall to meet her best friend for some shopping. Liz ends up in Elsewhere, which is basically a version of heaven, but everyone starts to age backwards until they become babies and are sent back to earth to live out a new life. At first she is heartbroken and obsessed with returning to her former life, but eventually she comes to accept her destiny and along the way she meets her maternal grandmother whom she hadn't met before, and several other characters that help enrich her new "life" after death in Elsewhere. It is a tender, heart-wrenching tale, that has some laugh out loud moments, and it made me want to believe in such a place as Elswhere.

Reader reviewed by Kv

I LOVED this idea of after death aging backwards, it just floods your head with a million other thoughts. How you have a chance of meeting your friends and family again after you or they have passed away. How age really is just a number, it just depends on when you die. Also makes you think, hey if the afterlife is Elsewhere, is it really that bad?

Even though the idea was great, the writing bored me a bit. However the concept kept me from putting it down. Drew me in really fast though

Reader reviewed by mearley

Here's an unusual twist on an afterlife. Elsewhere is where you go after you die, and you begin getting younger. Once you are a baby again, you return to earth and live a new life. There are obvious new challenges to a life lived backwards.

Interesting concept. Totally against my own beliefs of what happens after death, but taken as a fantasy, not bad. I could see strong influences of "The Giver" in this book.

Reader reviewed by Mindy

Wonderful interpretation of what the afterlife could be like. Imagine meeting up with those who died before you. Would they remember you? Would you have a life or a just a sense of drifting to nowhere? This book gives hope and meaning to life after death. A good read but the plot dwindles and feels to far fetched by the end of the novel.