I would not be surprised if Death and Resurrection is a reworking of this story, because while In Between has a lot of great characters and there is much to like about it, the story seems to lack shape. This 2009 novella features the same main character, Ewen Young, as the forthcoming Death and Resurrection, though it's not clear from the blurb if Death and Resurrection is supposed to be an expansion, continuation, or reworking of In Between. I picked up this novella after only recently finding out about it when MacAvoy's forthcoming Death and Resurrection showed up on amazon. Maybe the reason I can't remember the story very well is because it lulled me into a sort of hypnosis.ģ.5 stars. It went something like this: Medium-length SVO sentence. The protagonist gets shot in the heart, but gets revived, but then gets to go to the 'In Between' place, which has to be explained away by multiple religious systems to make different characters comfortable.Īpparently this novella was included with another book, but with the writing, I'm not likely to pick up any other works from R.A. Just yanno, stereotypical Chinese-American family with a grandfather who wants all his children to be doctors and family members with an obsession for martial arts gets tied up in dirty business because of gambling debts. Honestly, there wasn't much story at all.

The whitening of East Asian religions did bother me, but not as much as the yawn-worthiness of the story itself.

Originally posted on my blog, SpecFic Junkie.Ī completely forgettable novella with awkward writing at times, In Between didn't even leave me with a lot of thoughts.

Death and Resurrection by R.A. MacAvoy