The Wish List | Eoin Colfer | A fun, easy read

The Wish List | Eoin Colfer | Heaven and Hell and a Soulfight

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The Wish List

	The Wish List Eoin Colfer Scholastic Inc., 2004 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 101 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Meg Finn is in a tough spot. Really tough. For her last act on Earth, she committed a crime - and lost her life as a result. Now Meg's spirit is stuck in limbo, due to a dead-even tally of good and evil deeds. Meg's only chance at salvation is to return to Earth and stack on a few more good deeds - namely, helping the old man whose apartment she was robbing during her last appearance. For better or worse, that man needs a lot of help. In fact, he has a whole list of wishes he wants to fill before he dies. And it's up to Meg to make those wishes come true - before her own time is up....

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A fun, easy read

One of the few books that I've read twice. This book is one of my personal favorites, its light, funny and fun.

I enjoyed every minute of this book as did everyone I've lent it to. I can't wait to get it back so I can read it again.

Heaven and Hell and a Soulfight

Before Artemis Fowl Colfer wrote a few books. This is one of them. It has a very Irish Christian view of the afterlife, the one handed down over the generations and seen on some films and tv shows. In the grand tradition of many of these it has the agents of the Devil and the agents of God fighting over a soul.

At first glance you have to wonder why it is that Meg Finn wouldn't go to hell, after all she died in an explosion while her partner-in-crime, Belch Brenann and his pit bull Raptor, tried to threaten her, after breaking into an old guys house. As the story unfolds you discover that in fact this was her first venture into crime and she had been treated badly by her step-father, leading her down the path towards uncaring and crime.

She has a chance to redeem herself, to bring her soul from balance between good and evil and commit to good. Help Lowrie McCall, the man they were trying to rob, fulfill his dreams. Lowrie and Meg go around Ireland to do this and find themselves learning more about themselves and about their lives that possibly they thought they would.

It's not heavy, it is cliched, but I enjoyed it as a fantasy story.

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A fun read

This book, while not a heavy hitter, was a fun read with some poignant moments. Meg is a sympathetic character, and her path to (personal growth and) redemption is an enjoyable and significant process. Didn't drag, and had some interesting social commentary.

One of Colfer's best

This is a book I actually prefer to Colfer's Artemis Fowl series (which I never really got into). Maybe it's my obsession with death, but I always love reading a story about a dead person, and the star of this is as fun as they come. A girl is killed in an accident and is caught inbetween heaven or hell--not bad or good enough for either. So there is something of, well, a debate for her soul, and heaven will come if she can grant the final wishes of an old man. The relationship between the two characters is sweet and eventually turns into a father/daughter scenario, and the wishes are fun and touching--heck, some of them practically demand to be made into a movie. I also enjoyed the extra view of the almost-friendship between two representatives of Heaven and Hell. It's a sweet and practical view of the afterlife written with sure Colfer wry.

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