The Best Things in Death

Memory Chronicles Series

Author: Lenore Appelhans

Pages: 70

Published: 2014

Age: 12+

In this Memory Chronicles e-short story collection, Felicia and Neil explore memories dealing with love, loss, and joy. Pulled from the minds of characters from The Memory of After and Chasing Before, the memories reveal a simple truth: the best things in life are, indeed, free.

About the Memory Chronicles Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.The Memory of After (or Level 2)(2012)
  2. 2.Chasing Before(2014)
  3. +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.