The Wishlist.

Haha. I enjoy writing in this blog, it's something I look forward to more and more everyday. Everytime I write, another memoir is kept in a special box, when I open it, the memories come flowing.

Niceeee. 8D

Anyway, I have just bought a book. Surprise! Eoin Colfer's The Wish List. Even more surprising is the fact that I am going to review it.

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Now, anyone who has read the Artemis Fowl books or read it's reviews will immediately know how to look out for Eoin Colfer's style or writing. Even if you don't realize Colfer penned The Wish List, you will most likely find out before the fifth chapter. Devilish humor (no pun intened), slangy dialogue, wisecrack jokes are some of the traits. And besides that, the word 'fairies', the term 'retrieval squad' and much more are used, kind of deja vu isn't it?

So as for the plotline of this fiction, in a nutshell it's this: Meg Finn dies in a tragic accident while breaking into a flat with her acquaintance Belch. She ends up not in Heaven or Hell - but in the in-between, since she has an equal amount of good and bad points. Not wanting to spend eternity in Hell, she goes back - back to the world of the living, and help the man whom she tried to rob. This will supposedly make her get into Heaven, but the journey is more eye-opening than expected.

Sounds deep, isn't it? And I loved it. Funny, emotional, and a beautiful original plot. I almost cried. Up to the point where it all went wrong.

Woah - hold up. Read the plot again. Again.

Eoin Colfer writing something like THAT?

No. More like Mitch Albom. And it's true that the humor, as hilarious as it is, ("But, Satan, a lawyer's convention bus goes over the Grand Canyon today; we're expecting a bit of a glut"), it doesn't really fit the atmosphere. The mood. And so in the end it doesn't leave as much as an impact as I would've liked.

My rating: 8/10.