Friday, February 25, 2005
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
The Wish List is by the author of The Artemis Fowl series. Like Eoin Colfer's other books The Wish List has a melding of supernatural and mortal worlds but this time the melding does not involve the world of faerie but the worlds of the afterlife. Like the other books, technology pops up in unexpected places.
Meg is killed by her partner in crime during a home invasion; this should send her right to hell along with Belch and his dog (now one being) but just before her death she tried to stop the crime and put her life at risk to save the life of an old man. One in several million, Meg has a life exactly balanced between good and evil deeds. Meg is given a chance to redeem herself by returning to earth and fulfilling the Wish List but Satan has decided that she must not succeed and he is sending someone to stop her. Humanity ensues.
Highly recommended.
Meg is killed by her partner in crime during a home invasion; this should send her right to hell along with Belch and his dog (now one being) but just before her death she tried to stop the crime and put her life at risk to save the life of an old man. One in several million, Meg has a life exactly balanced between good and evil deeds. Meg is given a chance to redeem herself by returning to earth and fulfilling the Wish List but Satan has decided that she must not succeed and he is sending someone to stop her. Humanity ensues.
Highly recommended.
# posted by JJ @ 2:20 PM 
