Review: A rollicking ride through the afterlife
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
Road Rash by Bonnie Bernard and Doug Skinner is a rollicking ride through the afterlife.  Wayne Wright lets us know at the start of the book that he is dead, decapitated, in fact, by a drunk driver. To his bemusement, he’s greeted by an old woman who resembles Yoda and who turns out to be his Eternal Greeter.  From that point, we follow Wayne through the twists and turns of an odd place that seems to be situated somewhere between Heaven and Hell. While Dante would have a hard time recognizing the place, or the accouterments (iPads abound), Wright’s descriptions are creative, intriguing and downright funny.Road Rash is a short book. I haven’t read anything else by Bonnie Bernard or Doug Skinner but I found myself wanting more of the crisp, colorful writing. I enjoyed the story until the last fifteen percent (sorry, I’m a Kindle reader) when our narrator turned a little preachy and judgmental.  Up until that point, one of the most likeable things about Wayne was his easy-going and forgiving approach to the world at large and the people in it… or recently departed from it. I didn’t like the ending, but the creativity of the story and the excellent writing made it impossible for me to give the book less than five stars.