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A weathered dude, going by the name of Leo, suffers from cardiac malfunction and awakens in a vivid memory of his childhood home, where his long-gone mom assures him that he is also dead.Then he meets Elise, a girl from his distant past, still shrouded in affection that he never cast aside. When she perished all those years ago, leaving a large void in his teenage heart, he had no doubt that she had been lost forever. Yet here they are, one aged and one still exuberantly young, in a world with no mirrors and no imperatives, where space folds and the inhabitants can shape-shift, sometimes involuntarily, but mostly on their own accord.In between sexcapades, Leo tries to ponder the nature of this realm and little Lizzy sometimes squirms uncomfortably inside her own body, wishing to have grown old.As time advances, secrets, taken literally to the grave, are revealed, sometimes with hard-hitting consequences. Then there's the drift, a phenomenon not quite unique, yet consuming Leo's mind. If his hypothesis is correct, then time will not be kind to Elise. To complicate matters, she is displaying signs, so far unfathomably foreign to this zombie world.

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BookLife Prize - 2025 Plot/Idea: The concept at the heart of Heaven-of a man, Leo, who meets his first love in the afterlife after being tragically separated at a young age-is a potentially rich one. Readers, however, may find the romance between the pair to be less compelling than the other relationships in the story, notably between Leo and the family and friends he reencounters in heaven. Prose: Nekko sprinkles in some fine descriptions, particularly as Leo becomes accustomed to his new reality in the afterlife. The prose can be overly verbose, however, with extra details that don't enhance the novel as well as a reliance on the proverbial 'telling' over 'showing.' Originality: Nekko's storyline has some familiar elements, but the fact that the protagonist finds himself reuniting with a lost love after a full lifetime on Earth, is intriguing. Character/Execution: While the second-chance romance at the heart of the story is undeniably poignant, it perhaps carries too much importance, and can feel shoe-horned in rather than fully organic and emotionally resonant.

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