Damico, Gina. Rogue.

Damico, Gina.  Rogue.   Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt Brace  2013  326p  $8.99    ISBN 978-0-544-10884-4   hs  Fantasy  VG-BN     

With lots of droll wit and sarcasm, Ms. Damico has once again brought Lex, Uncle Mort, Grotton, Driggs and all of the others back into the business of facilitating passage to the afterlife, by actually saving the Afterlife.  In this, the third book in the trilogy Croak, the characters are again well drawn, with plot twists leading to a very different and difficult ending to the trilogy.  Having read so many dystopian trilogies lately, and been somewhat disappointed in the quality of their second and third books, this is a most welcome title.  Ms. Damico has managed to write a trilogy of books in which all are excellent reads.       

Summary: In this book, the last of the trilogy Croak, the story takes the quirky heroine and her gang of grim reapers around the globe to close the portals that lead to the Afterlife.  Only by sealing these portals can the process of death and the passing of souls return to what is considered to be normal.

     

Afterlife-Fiction, Dystopian novels                         --Lynn Fisher