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Happily Ever Afterlife #2
Crushed
Even ghosts have drama…
Lucy is ready for her next challenge at Limbo Central Middle School: joining a club. Or actually, forming one. Lucy and her best friend Cecily were awesome ballet dancers in life, so obviously they can start a Dance Club in the Afterlife!
Not according to Georgia Sinclaire. The head of the cheerleading squad wants to forbid cheerleaders from even trying out for the dance club!
Who knew that starting a dance club would be all about drama?
Lucy is ready for her next challenge at Limbo Central Middle School: joining a club. Or actually, forming one. Lucy and her best friend Cecily were awesome ballet dancers in life, so obviously they can start a Dance Club in the Afterlife!
Not according to Georgia Sinclaire. The head of the cheerleading squad wants to forbid cheerleaders from even trying out for the dance club!
Who knew that starting a dance club would be all about drama?
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2019
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Orli Zuravicky
50 books31 followersOrli Zuravicky is a writer, an editor, and an amateur interior designer, which basically means she likes to paint stuff in her apartment. She grew up in a small suburb of Albany, New York, where the most exciting thing to do as a teenager was park somewhere illegally. She is one of four sisters, which has offered her plenty of fodder for her writing. After high school, she moved to New York City to attend Barnard College, Columbia University, where she double majored in Psychology and English and got rejected from the Poetry department. She always loved writing, but it wasn’t until a few years after graduation that she started writing fiction and taking it seriously. Her first original board book, Mister Doodle: C Is for City, came out in 2011, followed shortly by the second book in the series, Mister Doodle: A Color for Sketch. Happily Ever Afterlife is her first middle-grade series.
Orli lives her happily ever after (life) in Brooklyn, NY, and works full-time as a Senior Editor in children’s publishing.
Orli lives her happily ever after (life) in Brooklyn, NY, and works full-time as a Senior Editor in children’s publishing.
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October 18, 2018
Korigovala jsem.
Viz můj komentář k prvnímu dílu. I tady mě štvala vyhrocená rivalita mezi dívkami, autorka to ještě korunovala klišé o tom, že záporačka je tak hrozná, protože je adoptovaná, a proto si nevěří. Musí nesebevědomí plynout z adopce...? No nevím.
Jinak se mi ale líbila linka s randěním, že hlavní hrdinka nechce randit s někým, kdo si jí dost neváží. A taky se mi líbí, že je spíš vtipná a chytrá než hezká. Pro mladé holky super čtení.
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Viz můj komentář k prvnímu dílu. I tady mě štvala vyhrocená rivalita mezi dívkami, autorka to ještě korunovala klišé o tom, že záporačka je tak hrozná, protože je adoptovaná, a proto si nevěří. Musí nesebevědomí plynout z adopce...? No nevím.
Jinak se mi ale líbila linka s randěním, že hlavní hrdinka nechce randit s někým, kdo si jí dost neváží. A taky se mi líbí, že je spíš vtipná a chytrá než hezká. Pro mladé holky super čtení.
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October 27, 2017
I loved it. It explains a typical teenagers life- full of drama. This is such a great book for lots of others my age
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September 14, 2017Thank you to @kidlitexchange for the advanced review copies of these two books. All opinions are my own.
The Happily Ever Afterlife series includes, Ghostcoming (#1) and Crushed (#2). In Ghostcoming we meet the lead character, Lucy, who has just joined the afterlife. She can't quite remember what happened in her human life that took her to the afterlife, but now she is trying to figure out how to get along in this new place.
She is now at Limbo Central Middle School where she is going to learn all about being a ghost. And who else to be her guide and help her along the way, but the cutest ghost-boy at school! Will she be able to handle being a ghost and being in middle school?
In Crushed, Lucy and her friend, Cecily, decide to start a dance club at Limbo Central Middle School. But when the head cheerleader gets in their way and wants to start trouble, will they be able to figure out how to make it work?
Both books are cute middle school reads with pretty typical middle school age kid problems. Problems that a lot of kids deal with and need to problem solve and get through them.
I think I will definitely have some girls that will really like reading this series. I will definitely pick it up for my library.
The Happily Ever Afterlife series includes, Ghostcoming (#1) and Crushed (#2). In Ghostcoming we meet the lead character, Lucy, who has just joined the afterlife. She can't quite remember what happened in her human life that took her to the afterlife, but now she is trying to figure out how to get along in this new place.
She is now at Limbo Central Middle School where she is going to learn all about being a ghost. And who else to be her guide and help her along the way, but the cutest ghost-boy at school! Will she be able to handle being a ghost and being in middle school?
In Crushed, Lucy and her friend, Cecily, decide to start a dance club at Limbo Central Middle School. But when the head cheerleader gets in their way and wants to start trouble, will they be able to figure out how to make it work?
Both books are cute middle school reads with pretty typical middle school age kid problems. Problems that a lot of kids deal with and need to problem solve and get through them.
I think I will definitely have some girls that will really like reading this series. I will definitely pick it up for my library.
June 29, 2020
"Lucy Chadwick is ready for her next challenge at Limbo Central Middle School: joining a club. Or actually, forming one. Lucy and her best friend, Cecily Vanderberg were awesome ballet dancers in life, so obviously they can start a Dance Club in the afterlife! Not according to Georgia Sinclaire. The head of the Cheerleading squad wants to forbid cheerleaders from even trying out for Lucy and Cecily's club. Who knew starting a Dance Club would be all about drama?"
Ah, where do I begin? There's a lot to write (ahem... I mean rant) so a quick heads up: this post is going to be quite long.
CHARACTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS: I mainly have the same opinions as I had for my first review for the first book (which you can find here), but this addition seemed... a bit worse? I'm not sure what happened to Lucy's character, she became an absolutely intolerable and jealous b-word. In the first book, she was super sarcastic which I don't really enjoy with people in real life but it was quite fun to read and her temper tantrums, although a bit... eh, were believable. She's just a middle schooler! She's just a kid!
In the second book, her entire conflict with Cecily just seemed so weird. When did Lucy become so overly possessive of her? Cecily and Mia were completely reasonable and Cecily being angry over Lucy was justifiable in my opinion, but not Lucy being angry with Cecily! Lucy kept avoiding and blocking out constructive criticism given by Mia and just continued to make Cecily feel like crap for wanting to participate in something (the cheerleader squad that Georgia is also apart of) that Lucy didn't want to participate in. She was being super lame with the whole "if Georgia's there, then I don't wanna be apart of it!" attitude. I know she's just a kid, but c'mon, man, be the bigger person. Mia and Cecily seemed to be aware of how possessive and like-Georgia Lucy was getting and I liked their reactions and dialogue, it seemed very human.
The conversation about Georgia having a hard life before her Afterlife that Mia and Lucy had was totally done-before. One thing that really annoyed me during it was the way Lucy reacted to everything Mia said. Mia was just trying to explain, with no bias, the possibility of why Georgia acts like the way she does, but Lucy just made it about choosing one person over another. ("Okay... that's fair. But are you saying that you regret choosing Trey over her?" PG 111). All replies were like "So are you telling me..." or "What are you trying to say?" which seem to be really on the defence and just made me annoyed. I'm sorry if I'm getting too worked up over this children's novel, but the truth is, I've been through this type of drama (ultimatums of choosing a person over another) and it's incredibly irritating.
The other characters that we were introduced to, like Oliver and Miles, were pretty cool. Again, very stereotypical, but I liked them and reading conversations between Lucy and Oliver was super fun! Miles as the new possible romantic interest for Lucy is exciting and, I'm not going to lie, I do really want to read the next book to find out what happens ha-ha.
Overall, all the characters were cool, except Lucy. I did not like her one bit in this book.
PLOT: Crushed's plot is about Lucy and Cecily wanting to start a new club together! The Dance Club called the limbs. The problem is that Cecily seems to be more interested in The Cheerleading Squad that Georgia's in. This causes a lot of drama and Lucy and Cecil went on a "cold war". Lucy's relationship with Colin also became confusing, as Lucy was sure they'd get together but Colin seemed to continue to fall into Georgia's trap. I don't really have much to say about the plot. I thought it was good and I liked it.
OVERALL: In conclusion, the second book of Happily Ever Afterlife, Crushed, was good, although a bit more underwhelming and pesky than the first book (mostly due to Lucy's character, as I've already vented about enough ha-ha). I do still want to read the next book. I don't think Lucy will continue to be this annoying because I'm guessing she was just like this for this book only for the plot to move forward ha-ha.
Ah, where do I begin? There's a lot to write (ahem... I mean rant) so a quick heads up: this post is going to be quite long.
CHARACTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS: I mainly have the same opinions as I had for my first review for the first book (which you can find here), but this addition seemed... a bit worse? I'm not sure what happened to Lucy's character, she became an absolutely intolerable and jealous b-word. In the first book, she was super sarcastic which I don't really enjoy with people in real life but it was quite fun to read and her temper tantrums, although a bit... eh, were believable. She's just a middle schooler! She's just a kid!
In the second book, her entire conflict with Cecily just seemed so weird. When did Lucy become so overly possessive of her? Cecily and Mia were completely reasonable and Cecily being angry over Lucy was justifiable in my opinion, but not Lucy being angry with Cecily! Lucy kept avoiding and blocking out constructive criticism given by Mia and just continued to make Cecily feel like crap for wanting to participate in something (the cheerleader squad that Georgia is also apart of) that Lucy didn't want to participate in. She was being super lame with the whole "if Georgia's there, then I don't wanna be apart of it!" attitude. I know she's just a kid, but c'mon, man, be the bigger person. Mia and Cecily seemed to be aware of how possessive and like-Georgia Lucy was getting and I liked their reactions and dialogue, it seemed very human.
The conversation about Georgia having a hard life before her Afterlife that Mia and Lucy had was totally done-before. One thing that really annoyed me during it was the way Lucy reacted to everything Mia said. Mia was just trying to explain, with no bias, the possibility of why Georgia acts like the way she does, but Lucy just made it about choosing one person over another. ("Okay... that's fair. But are you saying that you regret choosing Trey over her?" PG 111). All replies were like "So are you telling me..." or "What are you trying to say?" which seem to be really on the defence and just made me annoyed. I'm sorry if I'm getting too worked up over this children's novel, but the truth is, I've been through this type of drama (ultimatums of choosing a person over another) and it's incredibly irritating.
The other characters that we were introduced to, like Oliver and Miles, were pretty cool. Again, very stereotypical, but I liked them and reading conversations between Lucy and Oliver was super fun! Miles as the new possible romantic interest for Lucy is exciting and, I'm not going to lie, I do really want to read the next book to find out what happens ha-ha.
Overall, all the characters were cool, except Lucy. I did not like her one bit in this book.
PLOT: Crushed's plot is about Lucy and Cecily wanting to start a new club together! The Dance Club called the limbs. The problem is that Cecily seems to be more interested in The Cheerleading Squad that Georgia's in. This causes a lot of drama and Lucy and Cecil went on a "cold war". Lucy's relationship with Colin also became confusing, as Lucy was sure they'd get together but Colin seemed to continue to fall into Georgia's trap. I don't really have much to say about the plot. I thought it was good and I liked it.
OVERALL: In conclusion, the second book of Happily Ever Afterlife, Crushed, was good, although a bit more underwhelming and pesky than the first book (mostly due to Lucy's character, as I've already vented about enough ha-ha). I do still want to read the next book. I don't think Lucy will continue to be this annoying because I'm guessing she was just like this for this book only for the plot to move forward ha-ha.
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October 22, 2017
The sequel to Ghostcoming is just as sweet! Lucy makes a great lead, thoughtful, introspective, and flawed. While her “perfect at everything” trope gets irritating at times, this isn’t something the target audience would necessarily be concerned with. I’ve got Crushed on my to buy list for my classroom library!
February 3, 2018
Crushed, by Orli Zuravicky, is the second chapter book in the Happily Ever Afterlife series. My daughter was immediately drawn to both this and the first book in the series when she spied them at her middle school’s book fair. We were happy to receive copies from @kidlitexchange for review.
This book tells the continuing saga of Lucy’s afterlife at Limbo Middle School, where she is a new student - and also a ghost. Though my daughter felt lukewarm about the first book, she enjoyed Crushed more due to the theme. The main character, Lucy, and her best friend are forming a dance club - but are challenged by the head cheerleader, who wants to stop any cheerleader from trying out.
This book is classic middle-school drama and humor, which kept my 9-year-old’s attention, but wasn’t a favorite. We have purchased the third and fourth book of the series from a local bookshop, and they remain on her bookshelf should she be interested in continuing the series. Ultimately, this was a series that fell somewhat short of my daughter’s initial expectations upon seeing the book covers.
*Received copy from @kidlitexchange in exchange for an honest review.
This book tells the continuing saga of Lucy’s afterlife at Limbo Middle School, where she is a new student - and also a ghost. Though my daughter felt lukewarm about the first book, she enjoyed Crushed more due to the theme. The main character, Lucy, and her best friend are forming a dance club - but are challenged by the head cheerleader, who wants to stop any cheerleader from trying out.
This book is classic middle-school drama and humor, which kept my 9-year-old’s attention, but wasn’t a favorite. We have purchased the third and fourth book of the series from a local bookshop, and they remain on her bookshelf should she be interested in continuing the series. Ultimately, this was a series that fell somewhat short of my daughter’s initial expectations upon seeing the book covers.
*Received copy from @kidlitexchange in exchange for an honest review.
April 28, 2019
It's funny how Miles teases her in the end. Oliver is just a great brother and friend. Even though she's known him like, what, three, one-?- day! Oliver knowing what's best for his BIG-OLDER- brother sounds funny. Haha. But it doesn't last long, because I'm the oldest child. Of two younger siblings. Would Miles get jealous, knowing about Colin? Would Colin? We'll just have to read Drama. She's like super powerful. Lucy, I mean. Sad she didn't win first prize. I thought she would. At least she got a, what, an Honor? I and my sister fight a lot. And when we do, it doesn't last long. When I am the only one mad, I take away her privileges (when they are mine, and she's using them.): The computer (which is, like, mostly mine because no one ever uses it.), and other stuff. But never a whole hour like Lucy and Cece. At least they got that fixed and we know Georgia wasn't always like she is now.
October 3, 2017
Thanks to @kidlitexchange for the advanced review copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
In the second installment of the Happily Ever Afterlife- Crushed, Lucy is back and ready to join a school club. Unfortunately, the head cheerleader has other plans and stops them in their path. Can they overcome this obstacle and be part of a club?
Just as the first one, this is a fun and lighthearted series that young girls will find especially appealing. Although fantasy, young readers will be able to relate to the trials and tribulations of life in middle school.
In the second installment of the Happily Ever Afterlife- Crushed, Lucy is back and ready to join a school club. Unfortunately, the head cheerleader has other plans and stops them in their path. Can they overcome this obstacle and be part of a club?
Just as the first one, this is a fun and lighthearted series that young girls will find especially appealing. Although fantasy, young readers will be able to relate to the trials and tribulations of life in middle school.
December 11, 2017
I loved this i think its good that she moves past Colin and goes towards miles with a little help from miles's little brother Oliver witch is also on the limbos dance team that Lucy made in her former life she was ballet dancer and she wanted to start a club to dance. She learns that she loves photography and can make herself and other people like miles show up in them . She enters her pictures in a photo competition . Wears red because she knows its miles's favorite color . OH MY GOSH I LOVED THIS BOOK !
May 14, 2018
this was really sweet and i think the main character rocks. she talks ...well like a teen! She is a strong example of a clever girl with her head screwed on and I like the way she stresses out and overthinks things so shes not perfect. a hood example and an enjoyable read so enjoyable i was so upset when it ended... kinda half way thorough.. i know its a series but this seemed so short and unfinished. If young teens are reading this surely they could read a whole complete story and not be left hanging. is this a book or a script for a tv show?
January 4, 2020
I loved this! A lot more than the original. But can someone PLEASE tell me where to find the last 2 books?!!?! I can’t seem to find them in any book store!
April 6, 2020
just as funny as i remember
April 20, 2020
I liked this book because u always use to read it when i was little and i love reading it, and just thinking about how i grew up with this book.
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May 24, 2020Ben
August 3, 2020
I love this book so much I had to buy it💕💕🤞🏾🤞🏾
September 2, 2023
Awesome I love it
October 19, 2023
Cute pre-teen book. My daughter enjoyed it.
October 16, 2024
The afterlife, mean girls, friendship and boy drama, make for a fun and entertaining read. Literally laughed out loud quite a few times.
November 3, 2024
Just as cute and fun as the first
July 22, 2019
It is so interesting
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February 21, 2018Great story!
February 19, 2019
Well I'm going to finish when I'm at page 175 .
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