Review: An interesting take on what happens after you die - a good read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
A well written book, offering an alternative to what happens when you die."Deadliners" are basically spirits that take you to "the other side", or introduce you to the life as a deadliner.  But you don't stay a Deadliner indefinitely.  There is a lesson that you must learn to pass over to the other side - but its individual and no one knows what that lesson is.  They also have the capability to "bargain" to give their assigned person an additional length of time on Earth to live.We follow Danny and his group - Anna, Charlie, Milly and Reece.Danny is the leader, having been there the longest.  Reece is the newer of the group.There are some majorly difficult tasks that these guys are given.  Anna needs to take her mother over - and Danny's wife.  Milly - as soon as she discovered her daughter was on the list to pass over - seemed to forget any assignment.Charlie is overseeing a girl who has run away from the circus, but Reese is overseeing the Circus Owner who is NOT a nice man.Anna is summoned from the Higher Beings, to be told she has fulfilled her Deadliners lesson as is to pass over.Happy, but worried, she goes over to the other side, leaving the little group alone.It happens slowly, but you see that each member of the group is struggling to manage.....some sort of negativity has surrounded them all, and they don't know how.Anna is called back to try and help.Danny feels he is owed to go to the other side, and is desperate to get there and feels that the only way to get there is to send more spirits to the other side.Milly is constantly at her daughters side and neglecting her assignment.Charlie is missing Anna, but is obsessed with his current assignment.Reece seems to be going off the rails.....his assignment hears him, and Reece seems to want to take advantage of it...Anna is gobsmacked at what her group is now.  Long gone is the support, the fun, the general feeling of a family unit.  In its replacement is angry spirits, fractured family unit, no support, and extremely stressed Deadliners.Can Anna find the reason?Can someone help her to the right answer?Will the group believe her?And more importantly, will it help change the ways they've slipped into?A great book to read.Yes, its an alternative view on what happens when we die, but it is no way religious and very easy to read.The characters and the way they develop has been written brilliantly, and the storyline flows along.I believe this is the first book of Ms Medhurst.  If this is anything to go by - it won't be her last.Read on behalf of the author for an honest review