Yep, it's March 19th, and this IS my first COYER review. Hmm, something tells me I'm not going to be quite as successful with this challenge this time around. But that's okay. :) Any books I read and review are that many fewer I have sitting around, taking up space on my ereader, right?!? Well, that's my positive spin on things anyway. *ha*
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Release Date: March 15, 2013
Genre: YA Paranormal
Source: I received an ecopy from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Rating: 3 Bookworms
Synopsis:
Even being dead isn’t enough to get you out of maths class.
Dying wasn't on sixteen-year-old Riley Richardson's to-do list. And now, not only is she dead, but she's stuck in a perpetual high school nightmare. Worse still, she's stuck there with the geekiest, most annoying boy in the history of the world, ever. In a school where the geeks are popular and just about everything is wrong, Riley has become an outcast. She begins a desperate quest to get back to her perfect life, but her once-perfect life starts to unravel into something not nearly as perfect as she thought it was.
And maybe death isn’t really that bad after all...
Welcome to Afterlife Academy, where horns are the norm, the microwave is more intelligent than the teachers, and the pumpkins have a taste for blood.
Dying wasn't on sixteen-year-old Riley Richardson's to-do list. And now, not only is she dead, but she's stuck in a perpetual high school nightmare. Worse still, she's stuck there with the geekiest, most annoying boy in the history of the world, ever. In a school where the geeks are popular and just about everything is wrong, Riley has become an outcast. She begins a desperate quest to get back to her perfect life, but her once-perfect life starts to unravel into something not nearly as perfect as she thought it was.
And maybe death isn’t really that bad after all...
Welcome to Afterlife Academy, where horns are the norm, the microwave is more intelligent than the teachers, and the pumpkins have a taste for blood.
Afterlife Academy was a really cute read with some important lessons tossed in. It's a great read for YA readers, especially those on the younger end.
Riley Richardson is a pretty and popular girl. She's dating a handsome and popular boy, and she and her best friend are the girls that every other girl envies. Being in the 'it' crowd, of course, means being less that generous with the outcasts in school - and Riley has quite a talent for being mean. And illicit joyride with her boyfriend ends with Riley and a student she's tormented, Anthony, in an alternate dimension at the Afterlife Academy.
Having a front row seat as Riley learns how to deal with the afterlife was fun. She's made to attend regular teen classes such as math but she also must attend special classes, like Redemption class. She's determined to return from the dead, go back to her perfect life because here in the afterlife, she's the different one. In this grey world, she's the only one that still has color. And Anthony's here and being nice and making it hard for her to remember why she was ever mean to him.
Afterlife Academy was a pleasure to read. I did find it a bit predictable but that didn't detract from the story. Riley's moaning and mooning over her lost love, Wade, got a bit irritating for me but as a mother of teen girls, I know that melodrama is par for the course. :) I really liked the messages the story conveyed though. Young adults should think before they treat others unkindly, because you never know what karma will bring your way.
Riley Richardson is a pretty and popular girl. She's dating a handsome and popular boy, and she and her best friend are the girls that every other girl envies. Being in the 'it' crowd, of course, means being less that generous with the outcasts in school - and Riley has quite a talent for being mean. And illicit joyride with her boyfriend ends with Riley and a student she's tormented, Anthony, in an alternate dimension at the Afterlife Academy.
Having a front row seat as Riley learns how to deal with the afterlife was fun. She's made to attend regular teen classes such as math but she also must attend special classes, like Redemption class. She's determined to return from the dead, go back to her perfect life because here in the afterlife, she's the different one. In this grey world, she's the only one that still has color. And Anthony's here and being nice and making it hard for her to remember why she was ever mean to him.
Afterlife Academy was a pleasure to read. I did find it a bit predictable but that didn't detract from the story. Riley's moaning and mooning over her lost love, Wade, got a bit irritating for me but as a mother of teen girls, I know that melodrama is par for the course. :) I really liked the messages the story conveyed though. Young adults should think before they treat others unkindly, because you never know what karma will bring your way.
