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Title: Should have been an non-fiction book instead
Review: Miss Willis' explanations of the NDE phenomenon--scientific and otherwise--were food for thought. That, to me, was all that was good about this book. The characters were one-dimentional. Joanna Landers did not interest me and her internal dialogues were repetitive. I repeat, her internal dialogues were repetitive. Richard Wright's characterization was "a really cute doctor" and he always sounded like he was reading some sort of scientific journal. Then there's this young girl, Maisie, who was nothing more than character reciting a collection of great disasters. Same with this guy who keeps talking about the Yorktown. Mr. Mandrake was a stereotype. Great characters define a good novel, and none of Miss Willis' characters were interesting. I would've gotten the same satisfaction from reading about NDEs (and great disasters) in a non-fiction book.
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