ARC Review: Hereafter by Kate Brian
Title: Hereafter
Author: Kate Brian
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Publication Date: October 1, 2013
Page Count: 320
Where I got it: Publisher via Netgalley
Where you can get it: Amazon
How much: List Price 17.99
Format I read it in: eARC
Challenges: 2013 ARC Reading Challenge, Netgalley Knockout Challenge
Description/Blurb:
Rory Miller thought her life was over when a serial killer set his sights on her and forced her into witness protection. But a fresh start on Juniper Landing Island was exactly what she and her family needed. For the first time in years she and her sister hang out at the beach, gossip about boys, and party together. She’s also made friends with a local clique-including a magnetic and mysterious boy named Tristan.
But Rory’s world is about to change again. Picturesque Juniper Landing isn’t what it seems. The truth about the swirling fog that rolls in each morning, the bridge that leads to nowhere, and those beautiful locals who seem to watch Rory’s every move is more terrifying than being hunted by Steven Nell. And all Rory ever wanted was the truth. Even if it means learning that she can never go home again. From the best-selling author of the Private and Privilege series comes the second novel in a heart-stopping trilogy about a girl who must pick up the pieces after the only life she’s ever known ends.
My Thoughts: ★★★★★
So, I was a total dork and finished Shadowlands and had to immediately read Hereafter. Shadowlands left us on a major cliffhanger, where Rory finds out the truth about Juniper Landing and where she was now residing. The revelation was a plot twist that few of us saw coming, left us hanging and gasping for breath, and Kate Brian did this in the last sentence of the book!
My expectations for Hereafter ended up being very different from what I got. Steven Nell was no longer a threat now. So I thought, okay, this is going to be typical middle book, grasping at straws to hold the plot together. So not the case. Just because the immediate danger from Shadowlands is resolved, that does not mean that this is all fluffy clouds and pretty flowers. There is conflict. Oh, is there conflict! And once again, we get met with a startling revelation that will leave the reader gasping for breath and wondering how they could have missed seeing THAT coming.
The romance side of things heats up a bit in this installment, and I think that is just the icing on the cake for this novel, because it adds to the mystery and the intrigue. The alternating viewpoints in this book are just enough to give you little hints, and the inner monologue of what turns out to be this books “bad guy” will leave you shaking your head as you try to figure out who exactly it is.
This is definitely one of the must read books of 2013
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