Story Rating 10.0 out of a possible 10.0

Book review by: Aaron Stonecypher age: 16 Review submitted on 11/16/2007 at 10:24:33 list all 14 reviews for this book

Illustrations Rating 5.0 out of a possible 10.0

Aaron Stonecypher writes the following about Elsewhere :

This book, Elsewhere, written by (INSERT AUTHOR), was very emotionally touching. It seemed to always have a feeling to or emotion to bring out in you while you read it. Happiness, sadness, and even anger were the primary emotions the book i felt could trigger with its such powerful words and relevance to a teenage child. Elsewhere is a novel about a young girl who is killed by a taxi. She finds herself on a boat and with another child who was shot in the head from a stray bullet. They find out they are dead and on another side of earth, where you age backwards from where you died. For instance, if you died when you were 80, you would show up there at the age of 80 until you were a baby again, and released back into earth. So in this book, souls are recycled. A quote in the book I find most relevant to the plot of the story would be this by a counselor named (INSERT NAME), “Welcome to Elsewhere Liz, a beautiful place to spend your second life on, and only place.” He is really just saying to Liz, the main character, to deal with what has happened and that to deal with this place, because its the only place you can go anyway. I would rate this book as a 10-10. The reason being would be because it truly is not what you expect. It's nothing I would have thought to come close to reading. It holds your attention, and if it could, it would hold you down to read the whole book. The characters are so human like, you just have to see what they do next. This book reminded me of another novel called speak where again, the speaker has something drastic done, and has to get through life (except Liz has a whole NEW life)and you see what they do with their (very human) thoughts. Plus the books were both very easy to read and understand, again, with that whole (just human) aspect, it doesn't make you read rocket science to just tell you a scene. I'd recommend this book to anyone who wonders about afterlife to see what this author had in mind and also to anyone who sort of loves to read about how a real person would react to this situation and how they get through with their (new) life. Not to sound to lame but i can only find a problem with this novel about the length and how short it was. And it did skip a lot of important scenes i would have liked to know. I'd name some scenes, but it really does spoil the book. You should just go and read it if you interested in even a little bit, it's very much worth your time.

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