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Elsewhere

Gabrielle Zevin

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Nov 14, 2012 Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ rated it liked it

Shelves: 2013-reads

The first 1/3 of the book went pretty slow and took me a long time to get through. The second 1/3 of the book was pretty sweet, but quite shallow. The final 1/3 of the book had some nice insight and wisdom on life (and death), and caused me to tear up a little, I will admit. I wish that (view spoiler). Toward the end of the book, all I could think of was those cards where ...more

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Jul 02, 2011 Liora rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult

On the verge of turning sixteen, Liz Hall is killed by hit-and-run driver while on the way to meet a friend at a store to buy a prom dress. Strangely, she awakens on a cruise ship and it takes her awhile to realize that she is dead and that the ship is headed to the afterlife, a place called Elsewhere.

Once she gets to Elsewhere, she is met by her Grandmother Betty who died before she was born and Liz learns that on Elsewhere people age backwards, they get younger and younger until they are babi ...more

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Oct 14, 2011 Lori Henrich rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Liz is almost 16 when she dies and makes her journey to Elsewhere. Elsewhere is quiet and peaceful, you can't get sick or any older. In fact when you arrive, you start getting younger. On the boat ride to Elsewhere Liz comes to the realization that she died. She isn't very happy when she arrives and has a hard time adjusting to her new surroundings.

Now she is in a world where she will never getting any older and will never achieve those milestones most teenagers look forward to. Liz is not adjus ...more

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