I wasn't sure how I would feel about this book when initially picked it up at the library. My friend Tracy told me it was amazing and a MUST READ but once I read what it was about I honestly didn't know if I was going to enjoy it. 
 I am glad I listened to her and decided to give it a try because it was so much more than a great story! It was an enlightening experience of faith and self love. And even though nearly the entirety took place in death, the message was about having faith in life and in love. 
 But I still needed to really take a step back and examine this tale further before writing my review. And now I have. 
 The connection between Grace and John is beautiful to watch develop and tempting to become attached to. You want nothing more than Grace and John to be able to be together forever. Their love goes BEYOND the beyond and that for a reader is a beautiful thing to experience. But alas, the tale isn't really about them at all. Not them "together" anyway. 
 The true message is about their separate stories. For John, his torment over his little brother's death years ago has shaped him into a man who simply cannot move forward spiritually. For Grace, her Grandfather's death has left her questioning all of her religious teaching over the years and the pain of losing him has made her deeply lost. Through some sort of power of the beyond, Grace and John meet in spite of circumstance and fall deeply in love, teaching us that we don't connect with what's most precious to us as often as we should and we never truly realize this until what we had has gone.