Readability: 4/5
Plot: 4/5
Recommend: Yes

On Eddie's 83rd birthday, a tragic accident occurs at his workplace that causes him to die. Following his death, Eddie is confronted by five different people in his past in the afterlife. As each of the five people appears to Eddie, each of them teach him a lesson about his life on Earth and how they affected each other's lives.

I liked this more than I liked [b: Tuesdays with Morrie|6900|Tuesdays with Morrie|Mitch Albom|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1423763749l/6900._SY75_.jpg|1995335]. I do believe this book had a message in it about how each of us live individual lives that affect others, but the message in this book wasn't as pushed down our throats as the former. Secondly, I saw this as more detached from reality since no one really knows what happens after you die, thus not much of this book is based on truth or fact.

I honestly took no real, central message from this book. I rated this book higher than [b: Tuesdays with Morrie|6900|Tuesdays with Morrie|Mitch Albom|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1423763749l/6900._SY75_.jpg|1995335], simply because the message it was trying to push was less prominent and the writing style was easier to get through. If someone forced me to recommend a book from [a: Mitch Albom|2331|Mitch Albom|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1368640552p2/2331.jpg] I would recommend this book over [b: Tuesdays with Morrie|6900|Tuesdays with Morrie|Mitch Albom|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1423763749l/6900._SY75_.jpg|1995335] in a hearbeat.

Overall, it was a nice, shorter book that was easy to read and get me out of a six month reading slump.