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THE WORLD AFTER ALICE
Lauren Aliza Green
Penguin Group | Viking
Publication Date: July 2nd, 2024
316 Pages
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Genres: Literary Fiction | Contemporary | Women’s Fiction
Alice took her own life twelve years ago. Her best friend and brother are now to be wed, they have been secretly dating and got engaged without their parents’ knowledge and spring it on them at the last minute. The story takes place over a weekend and we also have flashbacks to the “before” leading up to the event where Alice tasks her own life.
Alice is a main character of this story, even though she is dead and not physically represented, because she is in the other characters’ consciences throughout. This is a very character-driven story and they are written wonderfully, flaws and all. I could look past all their faults because of what they went through.
The writing of this tale is very dry so I can understand the low ratings BUT I also found the writing to be very engaging. I was intrigued right away, I wanted to see how all this would play out, and because of that, I liked this a lot more than most reviewers.
This is such a sad story and how Alice’s death affected everyone in her inner circle and continues to do so. There are a lot of secrets and grudges held because of past hurts. These characters are going through pain, loss, grief and guilt. These feelings were almost characters as well. Everyone is trying to look and get past these feelings to go forward with a celebration. This was such a great debut and I have always loved a good family drama as long as it isn’t my own family.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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