I'll say this much for them, there is no abusive behaviour masquerading as true love, they are both boring but not ridiculously stupid, and there is no love triangle. She's so boring, I've forgotten most of the book despite the fact that I read it last night. She has all the personality of a limp noodle. Then there is more slow-moving dialogue and crawling plotline, before we are mercifully delivered in the last quarter of the book.Īmelia is one of the drippiest heroines I've ever met, and I'm not just saying that because she drowned. No good being an English genius when Joshua needs help in Calculus, now is there?) which she conveys loudly to Joshua, since the rest of the class can't see or hear her! Yes, this is the limp lettuce we are served for the first hundred-odd pages of the book. At which point she oh-so-conveniently has a flash of recollection and suddenly knows the exact right answer (because, of course, she is a math genius. Then they go to calculus, the one class where Joshua is no good, and guess what? He gets pulled up to give an answer while he is distracted by Amelia. They have a really boring conversation where she reveals she's dead and he is completely accepting and still wants to hold her hand and cuddle. Having found her, he makes an assignation to meet her at a park. He gets out of the hospital and starts looking for her desperately.

She rescues him and is immediately drawn to him. This book is bo-ring! Nothing happens for eighty percent of the book, except a whole lot of heart-attack inducing cheese about how much Amelia and Joshua love each other. But Amelia is being stalked by another ghost, one who is eeevillll and wants her to become his dark minion Joshua's grandmother is a Seer who wants to banish Amelia oh noes! how will these two passionate-yet-chaste teen lovers escape the doom that is inevitably descending upon them?! They meet up again soon after, he accepts without surprise that she is a ghost and proceeds to promptly fall in love with her as well.

While choking out half the river, he manages to let her know his name, and she falls for his handsome, striking face. She is suddenly lifted from this foggy existence when she saves a boy from drowning and discovers that he can see her. Hereafter, I shall not fall for pretty covers.Īmelia (and it took me a minute to recall her name!) is a ghost who has been drifting through the afterlife for several years with no memory of her previous life save her first name and her age.

Hereafter, I shall know better than to judge a book by its blurb. Hereafter, I shall never read another book recommended by Fitzpatrick. Oh boy, am I sick of the insta-love trope in YA romances! Do all these YA PNR authors shop at the same shelf in Writers R Us? I really should have known better than to read any book Becca Fitzpatrick has called a 'tender and poignant love story'.

Hereafter by tara hudson