Title: Unusual but not great
Product review: In Chapter I, a 14-year-old girl, Susie, is raped and murdered. She narrates the story from heaven. She doesn't make heaven sound attractive, nor does she seem particularly happy there. She is more concerned with the people she left back on earth. The heaven parts and what the author imagined its residents can do were boring and not very believable..... Most of the characters seemed more isolated from each other than from Susie. I didn't see any preparation or motivation for the mother's sudden desire to have sex with the detective working on her daughter's death. The neighbors gathering spontaneously in a cornfield for an impromptu memorial service on the first anniversary of Susie's death seemed corny.There are too many things wrong with this book to list them all. It has a few good moments, ...
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