Title:	How I’m Spending My Afterlife
	Author:	Spencer Fleury
	Published:	September 28, 2021, Woodhall Press
	No. of Pages:	270
	Cover Price:	$21.95 Paperback, $9.99 Kindle

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Alton Carver is in money trouble and since he’s been embezzling from his law firm, decided to fake his own death and disappear to Costa Rica in How I’m Spending My Afterlife, by Spencer Fleury. In his plan to disappear, he must leave his wife and daughter, but has enough life insurance that they are taken care of. He sticks around for the funeral and wake, and readers will worry that him getting caught may be the only building suspense in the entire book.

While Fleury’s storytelling abilities are okay, he uses a lot of profanity throughout the novel, which, even though many people use it, it doesn’t make it good writing and is obviously a substitute for a good vocabulary. Fleury, however, does a fairly good job of developing his characters. Most readers won’t like any of them.

This novel is different than expected, and different than the preliminary notes advertise it. It is definitely not a novel that anyone would recommend as a “good novel” to read. In fact, all told, reading this novel would be a major waste of time.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.