A review by noelkendy
Here by Denise Grover Swank

5.0

This is the first book in the “On the Other Side Series” by Denise Grover Swank. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I picked up this book with the thoughts that I wouldn’t like it because the cover looks scary and I don’t like scary books (yes, I’m a baby with these things, I also don’t watch scary movies). I was convinced to read it by Ms. Swank’s assistant, Ms. Davis, when she explained that it isn’t a scary book. So I put on my big girl panties and started reading… boy, am I glad that I read it! It’s really not scary, it’s a paranormal book that involves a parallel universe, which is something that I think about every now and again – like what if I would have chosen this instead of that? Well this universe depicts that. It’s a universe where the Cuban missile crisis actually happened. They can’t grow food, so they use rations. And they can’t step into the sun because the missiles nuclear power destroyed the ozone and it will burn them much faster. But their technology is very much more advanced than ours – they’ve even cured most cancers! Anywho, I don’t want to give too much away, but I highly recommend it!