★★★★
"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Just in what they say.
Just in what they are."
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
Ed
Kennedy is a nineteen-year-old cabdriver with little ambition who spends his
time playing cards, drinking coffee with his dog, and being madly in love with
his best friend Audrey. His life is
uneventful until he stops a bank robbery.
Shortly after, he starts receiving playing cards in the mail that direct
him to deliver messages to people in his town that he has never meet before. As Ed makes his way through each of the
messages, he does small things that make a big difference in the lives of those
around him. He meets a lot of wonderful
and interesting people during this time, but is still no closer to figuring out
who is sending him the messages. With
each message, Ed also learns a lot about himself and beings to make changes in
his own life as well.
Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief remains one of my favorite young adults novels so I
was excited to read this book as well!
It was very different, but I enjoyed I
Am the Messenger. I thought that the
characters were very realistic and liked the series but comical writing
style. I felt that the storyline was a
bit of a cliché, but I appreciated the unique way that the author developed the
plot by introducing various characters that were chosen to receive Ed’s
messages. Each person that Ed helped not
only got a message from him, but gave an important message to the reader as
well. The story was very complex and
moved along fairly quickly.
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