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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven CD: The Sequel to the Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

8 reviews

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I love this, too! A healing story about life after death. The lessons are inspiring, but the one that hit me was about Cleo, Annie's dog. My family recently lost our dog of over a decade, and I couldn't stop thinking about him while reading about Cleo. I hope you're in a better place, little buddy. I'm actually glad that she survived the accident because her life wasn't over yet. I love the resolution, too. What I love most about this series is that it' s truly emotional and reflective. We look at the after life in a different light which was super interesting for me. Anyway, I'm so inspired after this story. Thank you, Mitch✨ I'll surely read your other books❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and War

lay_kone's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

gabydoesgrowth's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, and War

jocy_'s review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

It's the sequel to "The five people you meet in heaven".

It follows the little girl Eddie saved on the pier.

The main character has a lot of challenges in her life and after death a lot of it is explained with the other person's perspective. It has a beautiful twist ending and the story is really beautifully told.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Death, and Toxic relationship

micaelamariem's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Short but powerful book that follows Annie, the girl Eddie saved in the first book. It was heartbreaking at times and altogether bittersweet as we learned with Annie what “mistakes” mean and how we are connected to others and across lifespans. Bad note: I am now afraid of hot air balloons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

allyordyna's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This struck me as very true. An amazing sequel that *also* ripped up my heart and sewed it back together a little kinder, with more understanding of life, eternity, and divinity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Infertility, Mental illness, and War

eowynn01's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Wow, this is the first book I feel like I picked-up in a while and what an emotional turn I went through as if I was the main character. Also helps that we are close in age and their birthday is just before mine.

But needless to say, Mitch Albom does not disappoint his readers! The way he breaks up his chapters, the small subtleness to each flash back to the main story. The attention to words used. He is and stays as one of my top 5 authors.

I am a slow reader, and it may have started a little slow for me I fell right into it, and was guessing who the 5 people where, where they would be surprised and sad all at the same time.

There are many points that hit home for me more the the first book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven; since these are things I have been dealing with and fixing in my own life the second part had me tears and reaching for my sick fur baby and a box of tissues since that was something I have putting aside as much as possible.

This does have a small hint of religion in it, so if that is a trigger please come in reading what you can learn from the book even if you have a different faith since you would be depriving yourself of a emotionally, self explorational read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and War

jinglebellyee's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I actually loved this more than The Five People You Meet in Heaven. This is supposed to be a sequel, told from Annie’s perspective, which is one of the people whom Eddie met when he was still alive. Maybe it’s just me, but Annie’s story was more compelling.. and a lot more heartbreaking. 

The five people she met when she visited heaven.. were also a lot more relatable. There were times when I had to put the book away so that I could wipe my tears and take a deep breath before I continue reading. The first time was when the old lady with the gunshot wound revealed herself to be Annie’s dog, Cleo. Cleo was introduced so, so well. Totally did not see that coming and I’m glad Annie got to reunite with her old buddy once again. When Annie met her mother, it was yet another heart-wrenching moment. Both of them started sharing secrets and the hard truths they have been keeping from each other. Something they should have done while the mother was still alive but well, we never know what we have until it's gone. Annie’s story with her husband Paulo was a good one as well -- how they met, how he did not find her weird and freaky but instead fell in love with her. It was a bit unbelievable to know that both of them were still single, and still very much in love with each other when they coincidentally met each other at the hospital like a decade later. The story ending delivered another shock as well -- was totally not expecting Annie to have survived the fateful accident after she offered to give up one of her lungs to Paulo (but sadly, he did not survive). It makes them seem like star-crossed lovers -- fell in love while they were teens, got separated since Paulo moved to Italy, reunited a decade later and fell in love again, got married for a day and accident struck..

 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Miscarriage, and Blood