Elsewhere

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Elsewhere, it's a kind of book that you've already heard and read before, or not exactly, but pretty similar to other stories pertaining to afterlife. expected plot and ending. but you know what's good about it? it kept you from wanting more, and i must say i just couldn't put the book down to the point that i just wanted to finish it right away! haha i like it, i really like it. it isn't just about fantasies about afterlife but it gives you something. it teaches something you wouldn't realize until you read it.

Liz is about to turn 16 but an unfortunate event happens. she got hit by a taxicab and died. she woke up in a room with a girl named Thandi in a ship named SS Niles. at first, she thought that it was just a dream and she did everything to make herself wake up from this long, long sleep. but she's afraid she's not until one day she got an invitation to the deck hall of the ship. Liz and Thandi were invited but Thandi refuses to go. so she went alone. there, she found a binocular-like thingy called OD. through those binoculars, she witnessed her funeral which confirms the fact that she's definitely dead.

Welcome to elsewhere where no one's getting old but you'll definitely gonna get younger and younger. you'll age backward until you were a baby and will be sent to the earth again. Liz falls in love, which she never knew would happen, got her heart broken, gained friends, and even got a driver's license! but everything must end. she was sent back to earth 2 years ahead of Owen Welles, his afterlife boyfriend (weird but cool!). A baby who is Liz but not Liz have to start a new, different life again.

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