Completed~ The Five People You Meet In Heaven

I just finished the book, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom. It was such a good book, because the plot wasn't confusing or too extravagant. It was so simple which made it great. I think that when books have too much going on, it sucks the life out of the story.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven is about an elderly man named Eddie, who works at Ruby Pier. Ruby Pier is an amusement park. He's been working there is whole life, then one day an accident happens. A rollercoaster cart falls to the ground, almost crushing a little girl. But Eddie races and pushes her out of the way, but then he never made it.

Eddie enters Heaven and there he meets five different people who each teach him a lesson. The five people that he meets have affected his life in some way or another, because unknowningly Eddie contributed to all their deaths. The first person was this freaky blue guy who used to be an attraction at the fair. (The blue man is basically in the category of the bearded lady or the world's one ton man.) The second person is Eddie's war captain, who died in battle because Eddie left him behind, again unknowingly. The third is thee Ruby. Her husband built the original Ruby Pier. The fourth his Eddie's wife, Marguerite, who died a long time ago from cancer. Then, the fifth and final is a little girl from Vietnam who was hiding in a house during the war and Eddie absentmindedly set the house on fire, not knowing someone was in there. He only saw her shadow, but thought it was nothing.

At the end of the book, he enters his Heaven, where he will await the girl that he saved from the rollercoaster cart, since in the book everyone who comes to Heaven reacieves five people, like he did.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven was really good. I didn't want to go into too much detail about the book because it's very easy to give away. I'm so happy that I finished reading this book because it was on my To Read list.