On her way from singing in church to hooking up with a Tinder date, Brittany Lynn Snider crashes her momma’s minivan, and her life is changed forever. One moment she’s texting HotGuyNate, and in the next she’s at a hospital in El Paso watching doctors operate on her near-lifeless body. If that wasn’t bad enough, she finds herself trapped in the Limbo Lounge where patients await their fate, playing cards and watching reruns of 7th Heaven and Heaven Help Us.
When a shimmering portal appears, it pulls Brittany upward toward heaven—until the lounge’s resident bully, a wealthy socialite named Edie, leaps through first and steals Brittany’s place. Brittany now has a second chance at life on Earth, but with a catch: she must inhabit Edie’s body.
Waking up as Edie in a mental facility where doctors try to cure her alleged retrograde amnesia, Brittany resumes a life of privilege in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Yet even as she basks in luxury and reconnects with Edie’s old flame, Brittany plans to return to her old life in Texas. But when things don’t go according to her plan, she must ask herself: Who is Brittany Lynn Snider, and what does she want now?
And where’s Edie? Did she manage to make it past the pearly gates?
Release Date: Apr 19, 2022
Heat Level: DNF
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Gallery Books
Price: $11.99
I gave this book three chapters, but my first Gibson novel was a disappointment.
I’d hoped it was something I could read past and in some cases I can, but in this instance the heroine was a trial. Add in a confusing afterlife aspect and I had to put this story down.
There’s not more more to say as the story was long-winded and by chapter three I was no closer to figuring out if there was a hero to this story or what the point of this story was. The heroine’s main problem being she died… which in most cases would put a stop to a story altogether. In this case, it prolonged the event. The book also reads more women’s fiction than a romance with a heroine who’s got a lot of growing up to do.\
I will give Gibson one thing, she’s adept at visual descriptors and creating fascinating characters.
~ Landra
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