Title: Unlovely Plot
Product review: My mother-in-law gave me this book to me to read, which was given to her by her older son, my brother-in-law. It was not a topic to her liking, but she thought I might enjoy it. Like many readers, I found the very first pages engrossing, but the prose got forced,the sentimentality too much, and the switching of bodies for the sake of some sort of happy ending of sexual union did it for me. HUH? The potential strength of the book is that it presents a wonderful opportunity for the kind of internal dialogue warranted by the unique situation of the narrator--she is in heaven and now sees everything from up there. But by allowing her to have this extremely physical experience, the author squanders this wonderful opportunity, so the strength of the book becomes its weakness. I suppose the prose can be captivating since it has the aura of an omniscient, stream-of-consciousness narrator, but then again, there are better stream-of-consciousness books.
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