Afterlife: Dark Fantasy Romance (Afterlife Saga Book 1)

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If you want to take a deep-dive into near-death experiences (NDEs), The Near-Death Experience is essential reading. Its collection of NDE cases and stories provides a wide range of perspectives. It helps readers think about the phenomenon through many different lenses. Dr. Long and his wife, Jody, founded the Near Death Experience Research Foundation in 1998. Their goal was to create a forum for “experiencers” to tell their stories. Another beautiful, heartfelt, exhilarating, insightful reading shakes you to the core, makes you question so many things you’ve done with your life. The writing is wonderfully descriptive and, as with her other books, it is the strongest and most incisive when it explores the bonds of sisters, the push and pull of family, and where I found it to be the most immersive. Perhaps because I’m also Hispanic and a sister, I found many of the scenes relatable and perfectly, sometimes humorously, rendered.

This was a memorable, gripping and meaningful and one of my fastest reading. I’m so happy that the author created this poignant, touchy story after 15 years later. And I hope she won’t stop writing in near future. Antonia has a sister with some mental health issues, and this sister goes missing. While she and her two other sisters are dealing with this crisis, Antonia is also sort of forced into a situation where she has to help some teenage undocumented workers, putting her at risk with law enforcement.In this work of heartfelt fiction, Liz comes to grips with her new predicament, living in a place much like Earth but very different. Antonia doesn’t know what to do after sudden death of her beloved husband but before rethinking about her afterlife, she has to deal with her sister’s vanishing: Izzy who is fighting with her mental illness. And of course she encounters with a girl at her door steps, pregnant and undocumented teenager. A fast and riveting start of the story hooks you from the beginning and keeping your attention alive till the end. The best thing about this book is the dynamic between Antonia and her sisters. I so rarely get to read things where a woman in her sixties is the main character, and this book has four of them! Alvarez writes Izzy, Tilly, Mona and Antonia with such life and candor that I can’t imagine that they aren’t based on real people. When I read the description I was drawn in by the mention of “a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep”, but I absolutely stayed for the interfamilial conflict.

A story that revolves around family, the bond of sisters, and the pain of loss, along with the stories, and struggles of those who have immigrated to America – both legally and illegally, as well as those people who seem to view ‘real’ Americans as an exclusive club. Love and loss both factor heavily in this story. James Van Praagh has been conducting spirit communication and readings for over 25 years. In his book, he shares advice and personal stories from the departed who have used him as a medium. She Gets a job working as a waitress at a nightclub, and soon starts to fall deeply for her boss, her eyes are opened as much is revealed with some brilliant twists thrown in. You might find one or more of the books above helpful in your death-acceptance process, or with grieving the loss of a loved one. If you do, it can be useful to share the book with a friend or family member and share your ideas about life after death.Only when these two incidents have been resolved does Antonia finally start in earnest to do the work of healing herself and finding a new life as a widow. With each of the balls that Alvarez threw into the air, I wondered how such a slight spine could carry so much conflict and thematic weight. After all, entire books have been devoted to exploring grief, to exploring family and sisterhood, to exploring the plight of immigrants, illegal and otherwise. And that doesn’t even account for the forays into mental illness. I worried that it would be hard, if not impossible, to give each of these elements the time and attention it deserved. More than that, I thought that the overall busyness would be a distraction, reducing Antonia’s experiences to the biblical trials of Job. This is going to be a really long review with spoilers. But it’s a really long book and I didn’t know how else to go about it. Unfinished Business offers a unique perspective on learning about the afterlife: the viewpoint of those who have already crossed over.

Whether you believe in life after death, near-death experiences, and the afterlife or not, the books above are exciting and rewarding reads. When you read about life after death, you learn more about yourself and how you perceive death. Susie relates the tragic event of her death in the intelligent voice of a teenage girl, speaking from a strange location that’s much like a school playground. On Life After Death provides expert, in-depth research on life after depth, as well as Dr. Kubler-Ross’s personal thoughts opinions about the topic. The other characters were just meh. They were sort of there, without adding anything major, and didn't add to the story. That just made it boring and predictable. I’d like to thank Algonquin Books for sending me a hard copy of AFTERLIFE by Julia Alvarez. All opinions are my own.While death is inevitable for all of us, the way we think about death is deeply individual and personal. Your unique concept of an afterlife is just one of the things that make your experience of death special. Never mind the movie: the novel is a riveting breakdown of the path from death to an esoteric afterworld. A family man perishes in a traffic smash and materialises in “Summerland”, an upbeat paradise built by the power of thought. But he soon travels to the appropriately grisly “lower realm” to rescue his wife, who in her grief has committed suicide. Matheson’s natural pace, honed through years of churning out horror and science fiction, rescues the narrative from both excessive gloom and new age mulch. Antonia Vega is searching for an elusive identity. She loved the fit and the timbre of her old life. Antonia knew its familiarity with its everyday actions and reactions. Being a widow after the recent death of her physician husband, Sam, leaves her hollow inside. Her daily routine of being an English professor has come to an end through retirement. The ebb and flow no longer lingers in her bones. Dr. Michael Newton is a hypnotherapist who has developed a technique for extracting patients’ hidden memories of the afterlife. His narrative, Journey of Souls , reads like a series of travel logs from 29 of those patients.