Chasing Before
“I’m a ticking time bomb. And one day soon everything is going to explode.”
Felicia and Neil have arrived in Level 3 and are supposed to prepare for their divine vocations.
But during Felicia and Neil's training period, a series of explosions rips through Level 3. Tension is high, and casualties are mounting. A rift forms between the pair, one that grows wider when Felicia receives memories from the Morati. The memories cast doubt on the people she loves the most, but Felicia can't stop her curiosity. She has to know the truth about her life – even if it means putting at risk everything she’s worked for in her death.
About the Memory Chronicles Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Memory of After (or Level 2)(2012)
- 2.Chasing Before(2014)
- +The Best Things in Death(2014)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the endless hours reliving memories of her time on Earth and mourning what she’s lost-family, friends, and Neil, the boy she loved.
But when Julian – a dangerously charming guy Felicia knew in life – comes to offer Felicia a way out, Felicia learns the truth: If she joins the rebellion to overthrow the Morati, the angel guardians of Level 2, she can be with Neil again . . .
Lenore Appelhans combines the best of much contemporary young adult fantasy in this inventive series: the dystopian drama of Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy; the religious mythology of the Fallen books by Lauren Kate; and the revolutionary spirit of Teri Terry's characters in Slated. Ultimately, though, The Memory Chronicles is a unique glimpse of a young life caught between two worlds and the ever-raging war between good and evil which surrounds her.