Genre: Paranormal
Fantasy
Description:
“After a life of peril and fear, Millie has reached the peace, beauty,
and security of the afterlife. But one day, when she is performing her glad
duty of welcoming a new spirit, that spirit recoils from her in horror —
because her body had become a zombie, and had brutally killed him.
As more spirits make the same terrible discovery, they ask themselves,
and each other: is this somehow my fault? When will it end? And finally: what
can we do? Is there something we can do to stop this?
And are there people among the living who can help them to do it?”
Author:
“Karen A. Wyle was born a Connecticut
Yankee, but eventually settled in Bloomington, Indiana. She now considers
herself a Hoosier. She is an appellate attorney, photographer, and mother of
two.
Wyle's thoughtful and compassionate fiction
includes SF, historical romance, and fantasy. She has also collaborated with
several wonderful illustrators to produce picture books. Relying on her legal
background, she has written one nonfiction resource, explaining American law to
authors, law students, and anyone else interested in better understanding the
legal landscape. Wyle's voice is the product of a lifetime spent reading both
literary and genre fiction. Her personal history has led her to focus on often-intertwined
themes of family, communication, the impossibility of controlling events, and
the persistence of unfinished business.”
Appraisal:
I think calling this book different and unique would be fair. It takes
some things that are mysteries and imagines what the answers might be. Things
like what happens after we leave this life. It imagines strange happenings and
how to figure out why they are happening and how to deal with them. How all of
this relates to the rest, what the ultimate answers are, and how it all fits
together isn’t at all like anything I’ve read before. And, of course how it was
all going to work out, especially for Millie, the main character, was something
that mattered to me as the reader and kept me engrossed to the last page.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
Review is based on an ARC (advanced reviewer copy), so I can’t gauge
the final product in this area.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 85-90,000 words
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