Review: Enjoyable and entertaining
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
A very different take on reapers, Forever After is an entertaining read.I grew to love Michael, and his friends. I loved the different take on the tooth fairy too, how unique.Michael is a reaper. In this world, being a reaper is a job title, and there are many reapers too. They each have a device which gives them brief information on the spirits they're responsible for collecting and passing on to their final destinations after death. They are paid for doing this too, though Michael doesn't earn much as he's on the bottom rung of the reaping society, there are others who are more succesful and can earn more.This is one of those books that I looked forward to reading more of come bedtime. It's so easy to read, and written very much in the way that I'd usually speak. I suspect that being because the author is from a local area.There were errors in the book (I only mention to weigh up the pros and cons so to speak), but as I always say, for me, the story is much more important. I take my joy from the images an author can conjure up in my mind and David Jester was definitely able to do that with this book.The characters get up to all sorts in Forever After. I don't want to mention any of it as I think it'd spoil the reading experience for anyone who might stumble across this review. Just be prepared to meet some quirky, comical characters within the pages, and discover a new take on the afterlife, its inhabitants and its goings on.There is also a lot of swearing and adult language, so I wouldn't recommend this for anyone who is easily offended by that, or younger readers. I'm personally not bothered by it, I found it enjoyable and it only added to the characters' realism for me. I thought it helped to not only bring them to life or show a characters depth of emotions, it just came across to me as how many people speak nowadays. It made it seem moree realistic.I'm now about to head to Amazon and hopefully find the next book. I look forward to reading more from this author.