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| Title | : | Afterworlds (Afterworlds #1) |
| Author | : | Scott Westerfeld |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 599 pages |
| Published | : | September 23rd 2014 by Simon Pulse |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Paranormal. Contemporary |
Scott Westerfeld
Hardcover | Pages: 599 pages Rating: 3.73 | 18684 Users | 3039 Reviews
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BELIEVING IS DANGEROUS... Darcy Patel is afraid to believe all the hype. But it's really happening - her teen novel is getting published. Instead of heading to college, she's living in New York City, where she's welcomed into the dazzling world of YA publishing. That means book tours, parties with her favorite authors, and finding a place to live that won't leave her penniless. It means sleepless nights rewriting her first draft and struggling to find the perfect ending... all while dealing with the intoxicating, terrifying experience of falling in love - with another writer. Told in alternating chapters is Darcy's novel, the thrilling story of Lizzie, who wills her way into the afterworld to survive a deadly terrorist attack. With survival comes the responsibility to guide the restless spirits that walk our world, including one ghost with whom she shares a surprising personal connection. But Lizzie's not alone in her new calling - she has counsel from a fellow spirit guide, a very desirable one, who is torn between wanting Lizzie and warning her that... BELIEVING IS DANGEROUS. In a brilliant high-wire act of weaving two epic narratives - and two unforgettable heroines - into one novel, Scott Westerfeld's latest work is a triumph of storytelling.
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| Original Title: | Afterworlds |
| ISBN: | 1481422340 (ISBN13: 9781481422345) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Afterworlds #1 |
| Characters: | Darcy Patel |
| Literary Awards: | Aurealis Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel & for Best Young Adult (Shortlist) (2014), The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2015) |
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After reading:It like physically pains me to say this, but ... I found this book disappointing. Look ... I love love love Scott Westerfeld. Like, so much. He's one of my favorite authors in the world and I recommend his books to people constantly. I love Uglies and Midnighters and goodness gracious I adore the Leviathan books and couldn't wait to see what Scott Westerfeld would do next. So naturally, I was excited for this book and I was ecstatic to receive an ARCbut honestly, it didn't live upEvery lover of YA, publishing nerd, and... okay, EVERYONE needs to read this book. It's fantastic and cute and smart and wonderful and thought-provoking. I've only read one other Scott Westerfield book (one in the Midnighters series), but I've heard great things about his writing. I went into this book with that level of expectations and it was met with two wonderful stories.Also, I'm pretty sure Guinness beer represents wanting to look like you know your beer when you have no idea. At least in
Actual Rating: 3.5I've read Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, but it hadn't been as good as I had expected with all the hype around it. Now, Afterworlds didn't have nearly as much exposure, but I loved it a lot better.It is written from two perspectives:Darcy is an eighteen-year-old debut novelist who is waiting for her book Afterworlds to be published. She moves to New York to find a place where she can write, but there there, she finds love - and a little bit of herself.Our second story is the
Afterworlds is 2 stories.The 1st story is about Darcy, who in her senior year of high school took the month of November to write a novel titled Afterworlds (sound familiar?).She gets a 2-novel book deal with a huge advance, and persuades her family to let her live in New York while she edits Afterworlds and writes the 2nd novel.The 2nd story is Afterworlds, the novel Darcy has written.Afterworlds is a supernatural thriller about Lizzie, who discovers that she can slip into the space between life
***This review has also been posted on The Social PotatoI dont know where to start with this book but I will say this, Scott Westerfeld is a genius. I love him to bits and pieces and this book reminds me why. When I first heard he had a new book coming out, I was over the moon, to the point where I didnt pay much attention to the blurb just because I believed Id love it and love it I did. This may not be his best work, and the novel may seem a little fluffy but there is so much more to it. It
I'm going to start this out with a plea that someone please tell me this book is a parody. It *must* be. Because I am a huge fan of Scott Westerfeld's writing, have been for years, and this book makes me want to cry :(.It is a dual story line. The main character, Darcy, is an 18 yr old, just graduated from high school girl who had written a novel in a month, in November of course, not that NaNoWriMo is specifically mentioned, but any writer can put two and two together. She sent off her draft to
I'm kind of torn over how I feel about this book - I liked some things about it and I disliked other things. I wasn't sure what to expect going into this because my friends on goodreads seem torn with half of them loving it and 5-staring it and the other half absolutely hating it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle. This book is really two stories in one, which I thought was interesting. We get Darcy who is a YA author living in New York, and then we get Darcy's first YA paranormal novel
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