A review by lattelibrarian
Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot

5.0

The most hilarious, haunting, wonderfully articulated, confusing, lovable, rollercoaster of a book I have read in a long time. The characters are wonderful, well-written, and horrifyingly dismantled. The plot seems so simple, yet seemingly non-existent at first, and then sweeps away into a fast-paced confusing whirlwind that keeps the reader occupied and intrigued. Multiple things happen that I don't understand, probably because I personally read it in less than 5 hours, and I think that that was the point: it is the future, there is a plotline we barely know about, but everyone else in the novel doesn't really know what it is either. And that is the beauty of this novel. We have to try to figure it out ourselves while not losing what we think we know is real and fake on the way.