Afterworlds

By Scott Westerfeld

Book Overview

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a "masterful" (Cory Doctorow) novel-within-a-novel that you won't be able to put down. Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds . With a contract in hand, she arrives in New York City with no apartment, no friends, and all the wrong clothes. But lucky for Darcy, she's taken under the wings of other seasoned and fledgling writers who help her navigate the city and the world of writing and publishing. Over the course of a year, Darcy finishes her book, faces critique, and falls in love. Woven into Darcy's personal story is her novel, Afterworlds , a suspenseful thriller about a teen who slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack. The Afterworld is a place between the living and the dead, and where many unsolved--and terrifying--stories need to be reconciled. Like Darcy, Lizzie too falls in love...until a new threat resurfaces, and her special gifts may not be enough to protect those she cares about most.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481422359
• ISBN13: 9781481422352
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.8" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Afterworlds takes me to another world

This book is written so beautifully creepy that it works. Warning half of it it how someone publishes the book which is boring but the other half is the story and it really gives you a whole new look on death and what comes after and what we need to do while we are still living.

I absolutely love this book

I honestly don’t read books like this one too often but i fell in love with it.