
I always get away with it when I try stuff like this Partly it comes down to sort of assuming that I'm going to I've got loads of confidence & Loki got away with everything Well almost everything When troubled quiet Ben begins at the ruthlessly competitive Cottesmore House school to the richest most privileged boys he is befriended by Hobie the wealthy class bully product of monstrous indulgence & intense parental ambition Hobie is drawn to Ben because he can see the Otherlife a violent mythic place where gods & monsters roam Ben has unnerving visions of Thor & Odin & of the giant beasts that will destroy them as well as Loki god of mischief Hobie is desperate to be a part of it Years later Ben discovers someone very dear to him is dead & he can't help wondering if Hobie
- wild restless dangerous Hobie had something to do with it Beguiling shocking & richly imaginative The Otherlife is about the darkest impulses within us all