This is a good book that I read with a smile on my face throughout.
It’s about heaven which is an office, where the CEO is God, and the employees are angels. The main focus of the book is on the miracles department where Craig works. He welcomes new girl-angel Eliza who used to work in the prayers department. She then sees God in his office and takes exception to her previous prayers work not having been read. God sees her point of view and decides it is time for him to retire so he sets a date for the end of the world. Craig seeks a reversal of this decision and is given a lifeline because God agrees not to destroy Earth if Craig can answer a prayer within 30 days. Unfortunately of the possible prayers he has been given to answer most are out of date so they are stuck with one set of prayers where a girl and boy both want to get together with each other, except they are the two most awkward and shy people possible.
So the two angels set about working their mini-miracles to try and make this happen, but there are a lot of things still outside their control, as there are rules involved in what they can and can’t do. They watch events unfold on their computer screens, and it is quite interesting the juxtaposition of these two angels watching and commenting on the lame attempts of the humans trying to get together when they too are in a similar situation.
Just a word of warning though. The book is very Americanised with references to American sports like the NFL and NASCAR; then talk of the East Coast and the South etc. and also the language. This is most apparent at the beginning but does become less in the later part of the story. All us English readers will just have to muddle through these parts, but the reward is worth it.
(I got this book for free through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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