Written by Debbie ViggianoI loved it! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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My thanks to the author Debbie Viggiano, her publisher Bookouture and Netgalley for providing me with a free digital copy of The Man You Meet in Heaven to review.
The blurb:
The Man You Meet in Heaven
When Hattie Green pops to the shop one afternoon, she never expects her life to flash before her eyes between the tins of baked beans and a special offer on sliced white. One minute she's loading her trolley and thinking about what to give her son for dinner, and the next she's speaking to a gorgeous man in a glowing white suit about what her life could have been....
If you had the chance to go back and relive it all, what would you do differently? Go on that date, take that promotion...eat that second biscuit? Hattie is about to discover where she went wrong, but will her mystery second chance reveal some stonking secrets in her past that probably should have stayed hidden?
Romantic Comedy
Humour
My thoughts:
This is the first time I've read anything by this author, but the blurb was interesting, and sounded like the kind of story I would enjoy. And I was not disappointed!Hattie Green has closed herself off to the possibility of any more relationships. After a failed marriage - one in which her husband cheated on her almost daily - Hattie is happy as she is, with her son Fin, and her dog. Well, she says she is. Her mother is desperately trying to set her up with a friend's awkward son, but Hattie is having none of that.
A freak incident at the supermarket has her taken out of her body to a rather wonderful place, The Halfway Lounge, not quite Heaven, and definitely not here on earth. There she has to review sections of her life, in which she has made decisions which set her on a different path to the one she should be on. She is escorted through this process by a heavenly-bodied, white-suited Josh. Despite swearing off men forever, she quickly finds herself in lust with Josh.
I wasn't surprised by the ending. Indeed, I had my fingers crossed throughout, hoping that Hattie would find real love and happiness in her future.
A clever and thought-provoking idea that is well executed. The Man You Meet in Heaven is well written, engrossing and thoroughly entertaining. There is humour, sarcasm, romance, lust, and fantasy as Hattie is taken on a journey through parts of her past to help her make different choices that will help her find happiness in her future.
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