Afterlife

By: Marcus Sakey

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Soon to be a major motion picture from Imagine Entertainment and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.

Between life and death lies an epic war, a relentless manhunt through two worlds...and an unforgettable love story.

The last thing FBI agent Will Brody remembers is the explosion - a thousand shards of glass surfing a lethal shock wave.

He wakes without a scratch.

The building is in ruins. His team is gone. Outside, Chicago is dark. Cars lie abandoned. No planes cross the sky. He's relieved to spot other people - until he sees they're carrying machetes.

Welcome to the afterlife.

Claire McCoy stands over the body of Will Brody. As head of an FBI task force, she hasn't had a decent night's sleep in weeks. A terrorist has claimed eighteen lives and thrown the nation into panic.

Against this horror, something reckless and beautiful happened. She fell in love...with Will Brody.

But the line between life and death is narrower than any of us suspect - and all that matters to Will and Claire is getting back to each other.

From the author of the million-copy bestselling Brilliance Trilogy comes a mind-bending thriller that explores our most haunting and fundamental question: What if death is just the beginning?

©2017 Marcus Sakey. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Good story

I picked up Afterlife because I liked the Brilliance Trilogy. Overall, the story is good. However. To pick a woman narrator with a strong British accent to perform a story that takes place in Chicago with all American characters makes me shake my head in puzzlement. Not that she did poorly narrating this tale, but--really! She pronounced "taco" as "tack-o"! There were many such mispronunciations throughout the novel that always brought me up short and out of the story. So what should have been a very satisfying listen turned into annoyance at this Brit trying to put on an American accent. Why not GET an American in the first place. Anyway, hope you like Afterlife and can get past the accents.

Second time

This is the aravind time i am reading this story. I love Me Sakey's stories so it was a fun experience the seving time round too. The story itself is quite different from the regular books he writes.

meh. It is okay but I wouldn't read it again

I have read a couple other Sakey books. Brilliance was the best of them (4.5*), The Blade Itself was the worst of them (2.5*), and this is somewhere not quite in the middle... let's call it 3*.

It doesn't really have much "happen" and is mostly an exploration of the meaning of death and the afterlife. We don't care about the characters - or the romance - because they are just "shades" in/of life. The romantic connection was just there to explain why the hero had to pass through the layers of the afterlife, it was not fleshed out or realistic.

It is, overall... an okay story. If this was a series, I would not read more in it, but I will read more Sakey in the future...
The narration is fine. There is a little non-detailed sex at the start and I don't recall much swearing.

we didn't finish it

we didn't like the book. the concept was too obtuse, and parts too gory. we didn't finish it.

British voice on Chicago story

Not ideal to have British accent (usually great!) narrator for a story centered around Chicago. It made it harder to listen as location names were not pronounced in the native way