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Tenley "Ten" Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl...who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she'll live—after she dies.
There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death.
In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she's drawn to isn't where the boy she's falling for lives? She just has to stay alive long enough to make a decision...
There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death.
In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she's drawn to isn't where the boy she's falling for lives? She just has to stay alive long enough to make a decision...
My thoughts:
I didn't make the connection until just now, but this story reminds me of being visited by Mormon missionaries every day. Like the "elders," young, handsome in their white shirts and ties, determined to share news of the second life or eternal life, that is what the characters Archer and Killian remind me of. The difference is that Archer is a missionary or laborer from Troika and Killian is a laborer from Myriad, two different and warring second life worlds who both are trying to actively recruit Ten.
The premise is very different even if the arc of the story is typical. Girl meets boys. Boys fight over girl and sacrifice themselves for girl. Girl, although wishy washy has other-wordly potential and strength. In other words, for a girl, she is hard to kill. Lots of side characters are killed for said girl. In the end, the reader is left on the edge of the cliff without a bridge.
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