Book about the afterlife

Universal Station by Beth Brown

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This volume is by the Beth Brown who also wrote "All Dogs Go To Heaven". Like that book, it's a light fantasy about the afterlife. (Indeed, one of the main characters is a dog.)

Sadly, the charm of a talking dog is overwhelmed by the repetitive, preachy dialogue about the nature of the afterlife and how right Johnny's grandfather, Grand, is about everything.

There's a romance in the backstory, but if anything the dialogue in it is even more nauseating in its preciousness.

There's a different book going on in the background that would be arguably more interesting, and whose midpoint would be about the end of this book. In it are all the actual action scenes, and the adventures of Johnny's love interest trying to escape the Nazis.

This is an interesting curio, but it's easy to see why it's fallen into the memory hole.



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