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Book Reviews of Just Like Heaven

Just Like Heaven
Just Like Heaven
Author: Marc Levy
ISBN-13: 9781416513117
ISBN-10: 1416513116
Publication Date: 7/26/2005
Pages: 240
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 42 ratings
Publisher: Pocket Star
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3
Love story with about as much excitement as watching paint dry. Cute and bubbly but no substance.
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Helpful Score: 1
The movie "Almost Heaven" is BASED on this book...(notice the emphasis - BASED).

YA-First-time novelist Levy scored a bestseller with this book in his native France. It is a light, frothy tale of love conquering all, even a coma. Lauren Kline, a medical resident at San Francisco Memorial Hospital, is young, beautiful, and content with her life. Then a faulty steering mechanism in her old clunker of a car causes her to suffer head injuries in a shattering car accident. As she later explains, she could hear everything around her in the hospital recovery room, but could neither move, see, nor speak. She learns that she is languishing in a coma, having somehow survived being pronounced dead. Enter Arthur, an architect and partner in a restoration firm, who recently moved into an apartment and finds it comes equipped with an unexpected bonus-Lauren. Well, her spirit, anyway, since her body continues to reside in the very hospital in which she worked. She's not dead, so the apartment-dwelling Lauren is not actually a ghost, and she seems to have form and substance, but only Arthur can see and hear her. Readers learn that for months she has been psychically transporting her spirit all over the city until she finally comes back to her own apartment-now Arthur's. This feel-good story is an easy and engrossing read, and it should be particularly popular with teen girls.
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Helpful Score: 1
Quite a different story from the movie and, in my opinion, WAY better than the movie!
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Helpful Score: 1
A heartwarming love story thats impossible to forget.
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This is a reprint of a book published in 2000, originally titled "If Only it Were True". They have renamed it to match the movie based on the book which was released recently. You might have more luck finding a copy with the old title!!!!
virgo63 avatar reviewed Just Like Heaven on + 31 more book reviews
Cute, easy read...makes me want to see the movie!
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This is a sweet story. A very easy read for the subway or beach. I liked it better than the movie.