Afterlife (Sakey) - Book Reviews

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So what do you get if you cross The Lovely Bones with Netflix’s The Walking Dead? (Wait, you haven’t watched TWD? Too busy waiting for the next Game of Thrones?) What you get is Afterlife — Marcus Sakey’s smart, provocative, though sometimes silly novel. But one thing is certain: it’s unputdownable.… The premise — the idea of two worlds, the living and the dead, co-existing on separate planes, right alongside one another — is nicely done. And there’s good fun to be had. READ MORE ……
Philip J. Adler - LitLovers



(Starred review.) [A] remarkably conceived and passionately realized supernatural thriller.… Balancing lyric romance and altruistic self-sacrifice with horrifying scenes of cannibalism and wrenching violence, Sakey comes up with a fascinating answer to the eternal question of why humans exist.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Afterlife is simultaneously a beautiful love story, a grim tale of apocalyptic conflict, and an opportunity for an insightful writer to ruminate on the eternal verities. Great appeal across genres.
Booklist


(Starred review.) [A] disturbing book born in dark times but one in which Sakey employs all his storytelling gifts to craft a noodle-bender of the first order. A love story enmeshed in a twisty thriller that peels back the universe to see what lies beneath.
Kirkus Reviews