The Afterlife of Walter Augustus Blog Tour+ Review

Welcome to the last legs of this welcoming tour for The Afterlife of Walter Augustus 

Below you will find links to follow the author, my review, where to buy the book and why not, let's see some fellow bloggers post for the tour! Let's get started with the party, shall we!?

Who is Hannah Lyn?

Hannah Lynn was born in 1984 and grew up in the 

Cotswolds, UK. After graduating from university, she spent 

ten years as a teacher of physics, first in the UK and then

 around Asia. It was during this time, inspired by the 

imaginations of the young people she taught, she began

 writing short stories for children, and later adult fiction. He

r first novel, Amendments, was published in 2015, her latest 

novel, The Afterlife of Walter Augustus, is out July 2018. 

Now as a teacher, writer, wife, and mother, she is currently 

living in the Austrian Alps.

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Rate:

4/5

Review:

So Hannah was kind enough to not just provide me with an ebook of her book in exchange for an honest review after I reviewed her previous book (Amendments) but she was also awesome enough to ask me to join the tour. Now, let's hope she isn't just kind but forgiving as well because this post was actually supposed to go up earlier this morning but with life and work, I completely SPACED on it and now here I am, typing this at work during my break! Yay for cool bosses though. 

I don't know why exactly Walter depressed me so much in a way that I simply couldn't stop thinking about the movie Coco and how once the characters were forgotten they were left into the unknown which is what happened here. His frustration throughout the book grew and my sadness with it. It was kind of hard not to get all mid-life crisis like with this book, it made me think of all that jazz of like, who am I really? Am I making an impact or will I too be forgotten?

Too much?

Back to the book

Letty was the light of this book, with her being our main vessel into getting to know Walter through what he left behind. Letty is what I wish I could be, living a simple but hardworking life, and living adventures through... Well, the book. Letty throughout the book is what made the book from getting depressing, she was a welcomed contrast. 

I love the concepts that Lynn comes up with, in Amendments it was all about having mistakes and meaning to have a perfect life but the reality of the flaws in that system. In The Afterlife of Walter Augustus, Walter has the perfect afterlife, everyone in the afterlife has a perfect death, they have everything they could ever want but the reality is that that doesn't mean it is going to make you happy. I guess you could say materialism isn't the answer. 

This book is a beautiful read that to me was thought-provoking and hauntingly beautiful in imagination.

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Amazon.co.uk - Amendments

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Amazon.co.uk – The Afterlife of Walter Augustus

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Goodreads Description:

Walter Augustus is dead. His current state of existence has become a monotony of sweet tea and lonely strolls and after decades stuck in the Interim — a posthumous waiting room for those still remembered on Earth — he is ready to move on. Only when he is forgotten by every living person will he be able to pass over and join his family in the next stage of the afterlife. At last the end is tantalizingly close, but bad luck and a few rash decisions may see him trapped in the Interim for all eternity. 

Letty Ferguson is not dead. Letty Ferguson is a middle-aged shoe saleswoman who leads a pleasant and wholly unextraordinary life, barring the secret fortune she seems unable to tell her husband about. However, when she takes possession of an unassuming poetry anthology, life takes on a rather more extraordinary dimension.

The book is OUT NOW!

Review: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Rate:

3.5/5

Goodreads Description:

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. 

Review:

This is a book I feel like half the world has read, literally xD Whether its by choice or assigned reading. The reviews are mixed. Its a book people either love or hate. And part of the hate I feel like is born out of it being assigned reading. 

I didnt hate it, but it also isnt my favorite book. I decided to read the book after I finished my reading goal for the year of 70 books by the end of April, so I was like okay, I need a more relaxed goal, so I decided to read bucket list books, books that are classics and people must read them in their life time. This is totally one of those books according to the majority of articles that I came across. It is an interesting read, can't argue that, it does have racism in the book but that is to be expected, its part of the story and its acknowledged and we gotta keep in mind that it was released in 1960 so its like... Very much into the time, specially considering when its set. 

That sounds like a douchy time thing to say.
Anyways, the ending of the book does make me particularly interesting on how possibly people reacted to this book, the whole inter race relations wasn't all that common at the time, and when it happened, it set both parties in danger in the South. 

The main issue in the book is something that we have all heard about, the prejudice that occurred in those times (although we aren't strangers to that now a days either) and its kind of hard to swallow. Scout, the main character failed to impress me and that is probably my biggest issue, I didnt hate her per se but I didnt care for her much which is a problem because shes the one taking us on the journey.

Recommend it?

Yes, everyone needs their own opinion on this book.

Review: Fairest of all by Serena Valentino

Rate:

4/5

Goodreads Description:

The tale of the young princess and her evil stepmother, the Wicked Queen, is widely known. Despite a few variations from telling to telling, the story remains the same—the Queen was jealous of the girl’s beauty, and this jealousy culminated in the Queen’s attempt on the sweet, naive girl’s life.

Another tale far less often spoken of is the one that explains what caused the Queen to become so contemptuously vile. Still, some have attempted to guess at the reason. Perhaps the Queen’s true nature was that of a wicked hag and her beautiful, regal appearance a disguise used to fool the King. Others claim that the Queen might have hated the girl for her resemblance to the King’s first wife. Mostly, the Queen is painted as a morally abhorrent woman who never loved another being during the course of her miserable life.

In fact, the theories about exactly what cause the Queen’s obsessive vanity and jealous rage are too numerous to catalog. This book recounts a version of the story that has remained untold until now. It is a tragic tale of love and loss, and it contains a bit of magic. It is a tale of the Wicked Queen… 

Review:

I freaking LOVE origin stories

Now I will be the first to admit that the Evil Queen from the Disney Snow White has never been my favorite villain. It could be because she looked super creepy and I wouldve rather avoided her all together even though I used to watch Snow White over and over again.

But her origin story was absolutely EVERYTHING! I enjoyed it so much and it made me so sad. She really loved and life failed her! That and it was... well actually I shall stop at that because SPOILER ALERT! But like oh my gosh!

I really cant wait to continue the rest of the origins series! This is what I needed all along!

Recommend it?

Yes I do!

Review: My True Love Gave to Me by Stephanie Perkins and others

Rate:

3/5

Goodreads Description:

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ...This beautiful collection features twelve gorgeously romantic stories set during the festive period, by some of the most talented and exciting YA authors writing today. The stories are filled with the magic of first love and the magic of the holidays.

Review:

I gotta say, I loved the cover more than I did the book. Some stories were so great and so freaking cute but others just kinda didnt do it for me. The whole thing put together I love the idea for and I always had it planned to read 1 story a day in countdown for the holidays but I never got around to it and in the beginning of summer I was like its now or never. I was expecting super fluffy stories and I really didnt get them but then again, the book is quiet short and it does have 12 stories in it so there isnt many pages that could really contain a lot of a story in them. I guess if the stories had been just a bit longer, then maybe I wouldve gotten the fluffiness that I had wanted.

Recommend it?

Yeah, it was still a cute book. Makes good for the holidays.

Review: The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Rate:

5/5

Goodreads Description:

A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.

Audrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. 

The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare’s marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals—steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Review:

When I started to read this book, I was instantly hooked but somewhere in the middle I got a sense of deja vu that simply made it feel like I had already read the book at some point in my life but that made no sense because I didn't even own the book until the very moment I decided I wanted to read it, which made it funny, considering the topic of the book. Anyways, I loved this book, I found it outstanding how this book managed to tell a story across different timelines without spoiling and always managing to tie all the ends together AND SOMEHOW NOT GET CONFUSING FOR THE READER! Huge huge props to Niffenegger for that. I had seen the movie a long time before I read the book (no, that's not where the deja vu came from, it was mundane details in the book that gave me deja vu, things not in the movie) and so I knew what was going to happen towards the end but damn it, it still hit me like a ton of bricks. This is a true love story, one that will stick with you and make you feel all kinds of shit 

Recommend it?

If love stories are your thing, yeah, but I could see how this would not be everyone's cup of tea.