The Afterlife By Gary Soto

[WildSimba]

This book was begging for a review, so I decided to do so.

First off, if you decide to read this book, don't expect a really happy ending. Don't expect to even really get an ending, that fully finishes off the story. Expect a GIANT cliffhanger, that leaves the reader to decide further.

The book is about a guy, named Jesus (nicknamed Chuy), who is killed in a bathroom stall. He is killed for "complimenting his yellow shoes,". He dies, and his "Ghost", floats out of his body. He then goes through the afterlife, still grieving on what is happening. He figures out, that since he's as thin as air, that it's hard to fly with the wind. It just blows him around. He, through these first 30-40 pages, realizes fully, that he is dead, and that even his ghost is slowly starting to fade in the second step of death. Before he fully fades, he finds a girl, who recently just killed herself, floating around by herself. He goes, and comforts, and she slowly reveals to him, why she killed herself, and even how she did it.
The start to fall in love. Well, I really don't feel like spoiling the ending, so, I'll leave you off at that. The last paragraph of the novel, is the best.

I give it an honest rating of 5/5. It's headed for greatness.

[CommandoTheLion]

sounds like a awesome story xD