Thursday, August 12, 2021

Review: Later

 

Jamie Conklin has a gift:  he can see – and talk with – the dead – for a short time after they die.  He doesn’t know why, and his mother urges him to keep it to himself.

His mother has a girlfriend who is a police officer and lives with them.  Sometimes she is nice, sometimes they get drunk and yell at each other, but it usually blows over.

One day the wife of their neighbr dies, and Jamie talks to her and tells her husband where to find her rings.  That leads to them talking about Jamie’s gifts, and the evelaiton from the professor that the dead cannot lie – they have to tell the truth.

However, when Jamie sees a criminal commit suicide, the person he meets after his death is not the same – and he doesn’t go away.  Can the dead be possessed by demons?

Later by Stephen King gives the reader pauses to think and run with Jamie from danger.

            [This review appears on my blog, Amazon.com, and Goodreads.com.]

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