The Everafter (by Amy Huntley)
common sense media says
Mystery, not misery, at heart of this dead teen narrative.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this book is more of a mystery about how a teen girl and her boyfriend die and less about questions of morality or religious discussions of life after death. The mystery is solved in the end and it's somewhat upsetting but not graphically described like the book The Lovely Bones. Though swearing includes "f--k," it's infrequent and not gratuitous.
Educational value:
Not applicable.
Positive role models:
Maddy and her boyfriend each exhibit compassion and maturity in many areas; Maddy's former friend exhibits forgiveness later in life, and helps Maddy achieve her goal.
Violence:
Maddy feels threatened by a girl who sells drugs. A friend suffers emotional abuse at the hands of her mentally unstable mother. Mention of two teens who are shot to death.
Sex:
Maddy talks a lot about her first kiss, but for the rest of the detail, she just says she and her boyfriend do "everything but" intercourse.
Language:
Includes "ass," "hell," "s--t," "f--k," and "Christ."
Consumerism:
Not applicable.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
Gabe's father is an alcoholic and is described as being drunk. An old friend of Maddy's sells drugs in high school.
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Tweens, Teens, Aldults... THE BEST BOOK EVA!!!
I loved it! I'm 13 and honestly I don't think there is anything bad about this book! I read the Everafter and was creeped out as well as captured by the spell of Amy Huntley’s amazing page turning suspense novel. Seventeen-year-old Madison Stanton knows she's dead. How? Why? Where is she? What’s next? She doesn’t know. She finds objects she lost throughout her life that act as portals back to the moment she lost each one. If she finds the object while she’s visiting then she can’t go back, but if she doesn’t she can continue to travel back to this memory. She finds some clues in these flashbacks when she replays her first kiss, a middle school slumber party, and a fight with her boyfriend. We meet her boyfriend Gabe and his alcoholic father, Maddy’s pregnant sister, and her best friend Sandra who is emotionally abused and controlled by her insane mother. The clues that she gets leads her to figure out how she died, and understands more about the Everafter (Heaven/ Hell). When she finally figures out how she died she journeys to the Everafter with dead Gabe.
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