Earthly Pleasures
Apr 16, 2008
Earthly Pleasures
Author: Karen Neches
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
(February 5, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0743292480
ISBN-13: 978-0743292481
This is a completely new and different type of “romance” book. A book with quite a different view of what Heaven is like and who goes there. Now, when was the last time you heard about a book that has Heaven and romance all rolled into one?
This tells the story of a Hospitality Angel and an Earthling:
An Angel whose job it is to greet the newly deceased when the arrive in Heaven and who believes she’s perfectly happy and has no desire to change her life, even after she's been told her soul has been promoted and is being sent to Earth; and an Earthling who should be in the wonderful first year of marriage with a women he adores and can't figure out why he's so miserable.
The book intersects many of the main and side character’s lives in interesting ways and has some surprising twists and turns in the actual story line. I don't want to tell you too much of the story as it would give away these surprises. Humor, angst, intrigue, attempted murder and lust are all combined in this fun story.
This story also does not have one of those neat, tidy endings that leads you to believe the characters are finalized and packed away into a tidy little box when you close the book. You are left thinking about them and wondering what happens in the future.
It's not a big book, thereby making it perfect to pack into your bag and enjoy on the beach.
