This situation changes, however, when Amelia sees Joshua drowning in the same river she drowned in many years ago. ( Hereafter 3-4).ĭescribing her existence as “purgatory” and “a prison of one,” Amelia is unable to touch or communicate with anything. It was always daylight, and I was always surrounded by row upon row of headstones. … And each time the nightmare ended, I would wake in a field. The nightmares were what made me finally see, and accept, the truth. Screaming at passersby, begging them to help me understand why I was so lost or even just to acknowledge my presence. Years of wandering, confused and distracted by every sight and sound. It had taken me awhile to accept the fact, perhaps years – time being a very uncertain thing in death. I was already dead, that much was certain. The following excerpt illustrates her situation well: At the beginning of the novel the reader discovers Amelia is a ghost-like creature with no memory of her past life and no ability to influence the world around her. In the first novel of the series, Hereafter, protagonist Amelia Ashley finds her true love, Joshua Mayhew, a boy who cares nothing about her past – which is fortunate since Amelia’s past contains a violent death: her own. Ariseis the second novel in the Hereafter young adult paranormal romance series by Tara Hudson and focuses on two star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of a war between the living and the dead.
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