It's a Wonderful Death
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
If you had one chance to change your future, would you? Now in paperback!
Seventeen-year-old RJ always gets what she wants. So when her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to send her back from the dead or heads will roll.
But in her quest for mortality, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle between an overzealous archangel and Death Himself. The tribunal presents her with two options: she can remain in the lobby, where souls wait to be processed, until her original lifeline expires, or she can replay three moments in her life in an effort to make choices that will result in a future deemed worthy of being saved. It sounds like a no-brainer. She’ll take a walk down memory lane. How hard can changing her future be?
But with each changing moment, RJ’s life begins to unravel, until this self-proclaimed queen bee is a social pariah. Is walking among the living worth it if she has to spend the next sixty years as an outcast?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seventeen-year-old Rowena Joy Jones is a victim of "accidental collection" by a grim reaper named Gideon, resulting in her untimely death, decades ahead of schedule. Not long after arriving in the afterlife, R.J. meets everyone from Buddha and Saint Peter (who looks "like Ryan Reynolds's doppelganger") to Cerberus and Death Himself, who debut author Schmitt casts as a Hawaiian shirt wearing surfer. Intent on returning to the world of the living, R.J. meets with the Tribunal, a jury of three angels who will decide her fate, and a reluctant deal is struck: R.J. must fix three key moments in her life to prove her worth, or she risks remaining in limbo until the time when she should have died. Schmitt's smart, funny novel will keep readers entertained as they follow R.J. on her redemptive path from "self-absorbed princess" to someone more capable of kindness, while perhaps contemplating their own actions and choices. R.J.'s sarcastic sense of humor sharply counterbalances touching moments as she learns how to live more generously. Ages 12 up.
