Afterlife: Dark Fantasy Romance (Afterlife Saga Book 1)

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Historically, children have presented some of the most compelling evidence of life after death. In Closer to the Light , Dr. Melvin Morse presents interviews with hundreds of these children, each of whom was once declared clinically dead. I came to the realization that Hudson didn't know the meaning of a lot of words she was using. "Complicated" was one. "Racist" was another. I hate to break it to you, but "Homo" refers to being gay...Being gay has nothing to do with your skin colour. Since when did royal mean attractive? Don't know if you've looked at the English royals lately...but they're butt ugly. It’s a difficult business, creating gorgeous hybrids out of broken shards, but it’s what Alvarez has done by delving into the deepest kinds of loss — and forced Antonia to do. “She has to heal what happens, to live it and grieve it. But she does, because she wants to end up in a place that is openhearted. It doesn’t have to be happy — just a place with the possibility of beauty and redemption and love and hope.” This work of nonfiction presents four essays from Dr. Kubler-Ross’s time working with dying patients. From these patients, she was able to learn “what life is about.” Kagan’s story is one of the most detailed and compelling after-death communication (ADC) stories ever recorded. The story goes beyond the near-death experience to tell Billy’s story of a vivid afterlife.

Journey of Souls presents a unique interpretation of the afterlife and what happens there, depicted through tales of past-life regression. And if that were not adding enough stress to her life, she also has to juggle a get-together with her three sisters to celebrate her birthday, which adds some laughs, but along with that is even more stress. It's official, I totally get the term 'Crave the Drave' now, he has just jumped into my top ten book boyfriend list, OMG ladies, ladies, ladies, if you like your boys on the paranormal side, this boy has the lot! The good, the bad but definitely not the ugly. Antonia has a sister with some mental health issues, and this sister goes missing. While she and her two other sisters are dealing with this crisis, Antonia is also sort of forced into a situation where she has to help some teenage undocumented workers, putting her at risk with law enforcement.

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This book contains a terribly ill-timed first sex scene. It was such bad timing that it felt abusive a little bit. Keira finds herself in danger as her past torturer learns of her whereabouts as made known to her by a creepy phone call and as she is running away in a blind panic, Draven and Co. naturally stop her from leaving. Rather than doing it in a calming manner and ensuring her of her safety, however; they act like weirdos themselves, leaving Keira feeling like they might possibly be involved, which leads to complete terror on her part. They drug her and she wakes up in a strange bed; fakes sleep, and as soon as they leave she does a runner throughout the estate. She is eventually caught and taken to Draven’s room. He continues acting in a creepy manner. He drops a file folder on his desk and says it’s time for the truth….Catherine. Catherine is her real name and the name she used when she was kidnapped and tortured. What kind of cruel, sarcastic asshole would go about it like that? The file folder contains her case file which he has obtained, but it’s not good enough for him as it was unnecessary for her to give a statement due to an overwhelming amount of evidence. So she relives the whole terrible ordeal and this is followed by the aforementioned sex scene. It’s not comforting at all, Draven acts sort of dominant, shouting out random instructions. Turn around! Look at me! NOW! It seems to me there is just no way Keira would be down for that right at that moment and no man worth an ounce of respect would have instigated it. Or possibly it just seemed like he was yelling because of the exclamation points. There was also a lot of unnecessary information within the sex scene itself. For example there is some clothes-ripping on Draven’s part followed up with an explanation as to why he is ripping her clothes. The scene is told from Keira’s point of view and it was insulting to the reader. I can figure out for myself why he ripped her jeans off. I don’t need an explanation. Something very annoying that I noticed right from the start was that this author has a tendency to end an alarming number of sentences with an exclamation point! This over-use of exclamation points mostly applies to Keira during her internal monologues! This makes her seem like a thirteen year old drama queen, not an intelligent and artistic history major in her early twenties! Completely uncalled-for exclamation points are all over the place! I am not exaggerating! Sometimes they turned up at the end of a sentence during an actual conversation and then it just made the characters sound stupid! It was like following a conversation between two extreme idiots!

Antonia] is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up her faith in people, in herself. In the past when her own stash got this low, there was always [her husband] Sam filling up her cup with his abundant kindness. She has continued to think a lot about the afterlife, especially in the absence of any sign from Sam. What, if anything, does it mean? An afterlife? All she has come up with is that the only way not to let the people she loves die forever is to embody what she loved about them. Otherwise the world is indeed depleted…” There's no development for Mr. Dominic Draven. The only thing you get an understanding of him is that he is an overbearing, presumptuous, controlling, stalking, asshole. Wow, how attractive. He also had a thing for talking in a bunch of random languages as if that was meant to impress you. Dr. Long and his wife, Jody, founded the Near Death Experience Research Foundation in 1998. Their goal was to create a forum for “experiencers” to tell their stories.Unfinished Business offers a unique perspective on learning about the afterlife: the viewpoint of those who have already crossed over.