Afterlands: Into the After by Boots
An Indie Book Review by Joseph Poopinski
Refugees’ Nautical Journey
4 stars
Afterlands: Into the After is a paperback novella with delightful illustrations & cracking vocabulary. The heroes’ tale has a bygone, Narnian tone. Naming similarities or conventions aided my comprehension of the umpteen kids. I found it teeming with life lessons of varying magnitudes from little, everyday reminders like ‘No one’s perfect” & “Practice patience” to “Everything changes,” a tremendously tautological principle, and, unfortunately, “Go, run! Get to the boat!” the worldliest of realities. Facing certain imprisonment or worse, Nix, et al., flee from an oppressive society clinging to dead traditions & its resurrected army blindly enforcing failed politics. Is escape possible?
Neither
prior events nor the saga’s forthcoming adventures are required reading to
enjoy this self-contained installment. But
afterward, one would, I wager, likely wish to take in those imaginative backstories
first-hand… and then eagerly await the next tale!
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