The Wish List by
Eoin Colfer
Meg Finn and her partner Belch break into the home of Lowrie McCall to steal. When McCall catches the intruders, Belch sets his dog onto him, and Meg forces Belch, at gunpoint, to call off his dog. Belch gets the gun, and Meg runs. She is standing in front of a gas tank when Belch tries to shoot a warning shot over her head. The gas tank explodes and Belch and Meg and the dog die. Belch goes straight to the underworld, but Meg is not that bad. She is given another chance; she must help Lowrie McCall if she wants a chance to go to heaven. Belch is assigned to prevent her from doing so.
This book is better written than the
Artemis Fowl series. The spiritual world portrayed is a strange mix of Christian thought, and Colfer's own inventions. Strangely enough, even though we meet St.Peter, Beelzebub, and Lucifer, God himself does not seem to be in the picture. If the theological aspects are overlooked, this book makes more sense. This book gives an overall impression that good triumphs over evil in the big picture, but the sloppy way that the heavens are run gives a lost feeling to the book.
Happy reading.
