Review: Drop Dead Gorgeous

Drop Dead Gorgeous by Rachel Gibson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was one of the most riveting books I have read in a while. When you read the synopsis, it might seem that this may be a depressing book. However, I didn't find this to be depressing at all. Sad, yes, for sure, but also quite humorous in spots.

The idea of dying and then being sent back to earth but in someone else's body and life was just astonishing to me. But in an excellent way.

Brittany/Edie's character was very well fleshed and more profound than you could have expected. If I had to try to get everyone to believe I had amnesia and could most likely never see my living family again, well, I don't think I could do it and stay sane. However, Ms.Gisbson writes this book so realistically that I found myself playing the 'what if game' while reading. Yes, I admit that you have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit, but with all the garbage happening in real life nowadays, I found balancing between believing and not believing was easier to do than I thought.

This is the perfect book to curl up with in front of a roaring fire or to curl up with on a hot sandy beach.

*ARC supplied by the publisher Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, the author, and Edelweiss.

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SYNOPSIS: "This hilarious fish-out-of-water tale—from the New York Times bestselling author of the “endearing, funny, and heart-tugging” (Karen Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author) novel How Lulu Lost Her Mind—explores what happens when a small-town Texas girl swaps bodies with a filthy rich socialite.

On her way from singing in church to hooking up with a Tinder date, Brittany Lynn Snider crashes her momma’s minivan, and her life is changed forever. One moment she’s texting HotGuyNate, and in the next she’s at a hospital in El Paso watching doctors operate on her near-lifeless body. If that wasn’t bad enough, she finds herself trapped in the Limbo Lounge where patients await their fate, playing cards and watching reruns of 7th Heaven and Heaven Help Us.

When a shimmering portal appears, it pulls Brittany upward toward heaven—until the lounge’s resident bully, a wealthy socialite named Edie, leaps through first and steals Brittany’s place. Brittany now has a second chance at life on Earth, but with a catch: she must inhabit Edie’s body.

Waking up as Edie in a mental facility where doctors try to cure her alleged retrograde amnesia, Brittany resumes a life of privilege in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Yet even as she basks in luxury and reconnects with Edie’s old flame, Brittany plans to return to her old life in Texas. But when things don’t go according to her plan, she must ask herself: Who is Brittany Lynn Snider, and what does she want now?

And where’s Edie? Did she manage to make it past the pearly gates?"