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decoding='async'/><span class="byline th-flex">By <a class="th-uppercase" href="https://setthetape.com/author/chrishaigh8/" rel="author">Chris Haigh</a></span><span class="posted-on th-block"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-05-28T06:00:56+01:00">28 May 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-06-05T15:05:38+01:00">5 June 2024</time></span> <div class="comments-link th-flex th-items-center sm:th-mt-0 th-mt-auto"> <svg class="svg-icon th-fill-current" width="16" height="16" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 3c5.514 0 10 3.592 10 8.007 0 4.917-5.144 7.961-9.91 7.961-1.937 0-3.384-.397-4.394-.644-1 .613-1.594 1.037-4.272 1.82.535-1.373.722-2.748.601-4.265-.837-1-2.025-2.4-2.025-4.872 0-4.415 4.486-8.007 10-8.007zm0-2c-6.338 0-12 4.226-12 10.007 0 2.05.739 4.063 2.047 5.625.055 1.83-1.023 4.456-1.993 6.368 2.602-.47 6.301-1.508 7.978-2.536 1.417.345 2.774.503 4.059.503 7.084 0 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data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="The Afterlife of Mal Caldera – PACKSHOT" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?fit=197%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?fit=673%2C1024&ssl=1" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-250637" src="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?resize=197%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="197" height="300" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?resize=197%2C300&ssl=1 197w, https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?resize=673%2C1024&ssl=1 673w, https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?resize=99%2C150&ssl=1 99w, https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?resize=768%2C1168&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Afterlife-of-Mal-Caldera-PACKSHOT.jpg?w=986&ssl=1 986w" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" />Mal Caldera is definitely dead and has a lot more living to do. The title character in Nadi Reed Perez’s <strong>The Afterlife of Mal Caldera</strong> is a retired rockstar who despite (mostly) hanging up the raucous behaviour, is still estranged from her staunchly Catholic family by the time she expires off the mortal coil and finds herself stuck, unable to move on.</p> <p>With a story focusing less on plot and more on developing and exploring character dynamics, namely those between Mal and her still-alive sister Cris, and of Mal and the reluctant medium she enlists, Ren, to help mend her relationships, Nadi Reed Perez eschews some of the trappings of other ghost-lit-fic (usually a secret murder or mysterious happening) in digging deep into thorny emotional territory and the grief-laden questions that follow the passing of a loved one. <strong>The Afterlife of Mal Caldera </strong>is not a light read by any means, but for the right reader, might be the one that they need at that time.</p> <blockquote><p>READ MORE: <a href="https://setthetape.com/2024/05/27/the-valiant-ones-1975/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Valiant Ones (1975) – Blu-ray Review</a></p></blockquote> <p><strong>The Afterlife of Mal Caldera</strong> isn’t always divine, but it is a largely enjoyable character study of a selfish, flawed, deeply relatable woman who the reader will come to love by the end of the story. Reed Perez is a talented scribe and if they continue to create heartfelt, poignant tales like this, they’ll find themselves a devoted niche of readers ready to follow them to hell and back (pun very much intended).</p> <p><em><strong>The Afterlife of Mal Caldera </strong>is out on 11th June from <a href="https://setthetape.com/tag/Titan-Books/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Titan Books</a>.</em></p> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="37670" data-permalink="https://setthetape.com/2018/07/13/throwback-20-out-of-sight/july2018-rating-four-4/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JULY2018-rating-four-4.png?fit=300%2C58&ssl=1" data-orig-size="300,58" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="JULY2018 rating four 4" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JULY2018-rating-four-4.png?fit=300%2C58&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JULY2018-rating-four-4.png?fit=300%2C58&ssl=1" class="size-medium wp-image-37670 aligncenter" src="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JULY2018-rating-four-4.png?resize=300%2C58&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="58" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JULY2018-rating-four-4.png?w=300&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/setthetape.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JULY2018-rating-four-4.png?resize=150%2C29&ssl=1 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p> <p><script type='text/javascript' src='https://ko-fi.com/widgets/widget_2.js'></script><script type="text/javascript">kofiwidget2.init('Like this? 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