Review: Didn't care for this
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2011
This is the story of what happens to Juniper post-death.  Other reviewers have already covered the outline of the story well.My main concern with this story was that I didn't fully buy why Juniper was doing the things that she was doing.  She didn't care enough about her friend when she was alive to even pay attention to her.  Now that she is dead, she'll risk eternal torture to save her.  I just didn't buy it.  I also felt that the friend's boyfriend was a stereotype and that detracted from the story for me.  Every abuser isn't a drunk working class guy - I felt as if the author just reached for the first thoughts that came to mind when creating that character.The mechanics of the afterlife could have been more carefully drawn for us also.  Juniper doesn't get a way to progress to the next world - surely this has happened at least once before, but nobody in the story seems familiar with it.  All of these things made me very conscious that I was reading a story.  The ending was too much of a set-up for future stories featuring Juniper (and maybe Cricket, which would be good.  I liked Cricket, but Juniper's sense of entitlement just annoyed me).