Official Review: Here in the Hereafter
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Official Review: Here in the Hereafter
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Here in the Hereafter" by Barb McIntyre.]
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I give Here in the Hereafter by Barn McIntyre 3 stars out of 4.
This book is very unique in several ways. It starts out with a man who sees a ghost, and the ghost then starts communicating with him and showing the man what exactly him and other ghosts do when they die. The ghosts are sent to help people who are usually in need of help, and can “connect” with the person they are helping and feel their emotions. The people who are helped have no idea, and the ghosts usually guide them by giving them certain feelings, such as an urge to go running at a certain time, or a really strong urge to drink tea even though one hates tea. There are many interesting small stories the ghost tells, along with a few really long ones that are particularly interesting.
The longest story that was told was about a girl, Diana, who was raped as a girl while on tour playing violin. She grew up being afraid of getting even physically near men, and went through a lot of trauma, including losing her parents at a young age. One weekend she was away on a weekend trip for her job, and her plane got delayed while going home. When she returned home, she witnessed the remnants of her apartment, as her whole floor had just burned down and one of her neighbors had even died. She was saved, and she decided to completely move locations and start fresh on a whim. She ended up meeting and dating a guy where she moved to, and slowly worked her way through her fear of men, until a catastrophe happened. The ending of that story was completely unexpected and disturbing, and brings up some interesting thoughts.
The author did a really good job with working up the suspense in each story to keep the reader interested, and usually came through with an interesting ending for many of them. The ghost would occasionally take a break in between stories and explain the different levels of ghosts, and how they are determined according to how they lived their life. I thought these ideas could have been a little more interesting, but are still very unique.
This book raises a lot of questions on what happens when we die, and the ghosts in the book do not even know what exactly is happening. They do not know who is “guiding” them or why they get calls to help the people they do help. Readers are faced with many questions; maybe more than one may have had about death than before reading this book. It is definitely an interesting, unique book.
I did not really like the ending that much, and I think it could have been a lot better. The ending is similar to her other book, 74 Lakeview Avenue, which I also loved. Overall, however, I loved this book and was able to quickly read it without much time in between. I would definitely recommend this book to friends, especially ones with an open mind as there are some controversial subjects in it.
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This book is very unique in several ways. It starts out with a man who sees a ghost, and the ghost then starts communicating with him and showing the man what exactly him and other ghosts do when they die. The ghosts are sent to help people who are usually in need of help, and can “connect” with the person they are helping and feel their emotions. The people who are helped have no idea, and the ghosts usually guide them by giving them certain feelings, such as an urge to go running at a certain time, or a really strong urge to drink tea even though one hates tea. There are many interesting small stories the ghost tells, along with a few really long ones that are particularly interesting.
The longest story that was told was about a girl, Diana, who was raped as a girl while on tour playing violin. She grew up being afraid of getting even physically near men, and went through a lot of trauma, including losing her parents at a young age. One weekend she was away on a weekend trip for her job, and her plane got delayed while going home. When she returned home, she witnessed the remnants of her apartment, as her whole floor had just burned down and one of her neighbors had even died. She was saved, and she decided to completely move locations and start fresh on a whim. She ended up meeting and dating a guy where she moved to, and slowly worked her way through her fear of men, until a catastrophe happened. The ending of that story was completely unexpected and disturbing, and brings up some interesting thoughts.
The author did a really good job with working up the suspense in each story to keep the reader interested, and usually came through with an interesting ending for many of them. The ghost would occasionally take a break in between stories and explain the different levels of ghosts, and how they are determined according to how they lived their life. I thought these ideas could have been a little more interesting, but are still very unique.
This book raises a lot of questions on what happens when we die, and the ghosts in the book do not even know what exactly is happening. They do not know who is “guiding” them or why they get calls to help the people they do help. Readers are faced with many questions; maybe more than one may have had about death than before reading this book. It is definitely an interesting, unique book.
I did not really like the ending that much, and I think it could have been a lot better. The ending is similar to her other book, 74 Lakeview Avenue, which I also loved. Overall, however, I loved this book and was able to quickly read it without much time in between. I would definitely recommend this book to friends, especially ones with an open mind as there are some controversial subjects in it.
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