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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

6 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

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

mysteriousokapi's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

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

minapaige's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death