Review: Creepy Afterlife will have you hoping there's a better place than Lethe
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2012
Death: Is the not end as it seems to be but the beginning of a hellish existence.Dan, a youth from America dies, only to find himself naked in the body of a beautiful woman. WOW! Not sure how to... umm process this one. Anyway he meets Marco (local rebel) and tries to figure what the point of his new "existence" on Lethe. They tell him he needs to climb a mountain (which causes excruciating pain) to reach some sort of enlightenment. Given no reason or information about what lies ahead Dan joins Marco in his attempts to return back the living world.This would be easy but there are politics and factions even in the underworld! Some crazy woman is pulling the strings, literally, which send humans to their death. There seems to be a competition to gain as many enlightened souls as possible to maintain faction power. Dan is the key to this struggle but he refuses to comply.How I review books in order of importance: Plot, Writing Sophistication Level, Character Depth, World Integrity, and Grammar/Spelling. See my profile for a more detailed explanation.This book had me scratching my head to figure everything out and was very thought provoking. I would have preferred more information about the factions and "angels" in the afterlife. It certainly makes you wonder and hope that things after we die are not similar to Lethe. But it does bring up questions because who knows what it's like? Good read but it's not an easy read. If you like the kind of existential, satirical, and open ended interpretation of the "reality" in the book you may enjoy this. If you like happy stories where everything makes sense this book isn't for you. I rated this a four because it was hard to understand the world and the plot. It seemed that there were too many contradictions in terms of what the characters could and could not do in Lethe.