Language: R (100+ swears, 3 “f”); Mature Content: PG (some parental abandonment, death, grief); Violence: PG (off-page vehicular death, supernatural pain in purgatory);
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
16 yo Tegan is dead and hanging out in a perfect replica of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, a depressing memory from her former life. An angel, Zelda, informs her that this is her heaven, the place where she was happiest. Tegan disagrees and files a complaint. Zelda has one month to take Tegan back to past memories to help her see what really mattered most in her life, and in death.
What an odd read. It gave me flavors of the movie Beetlejuice mixed with the tv show The Good Place. You would think that there wouldn’t be much of a life to reflect on at 16 years, but it goes to show that there is a lifetime of emotion in every little moment, we just spend a lot of time not feeling them or pushing them aside for later. I do think this could be used in the high school AP literature classroom as an interesting companion piece to Dante’s Divine Comedy, but be aware of the rating for language.
Reviewer: Kiera Beddes, ELA teacher, #bookswithbeddes
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