If only it where true - Marc Levy

My husband is a complete garage sale addict, he's the guy they put those "don't come before 8am" notices in the newspaper adds. He got this one free with a cheese server, he doesn't even like cheese....Anyway This is the book in which they roughly based the film "Just like heaven" with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. Loved the film, light romantic comedy with a coma victim whats not to like. As a book though...it could be better. I HATE giving negative criticism  but it was a very shallow book, and with only 283 pages it still manages to have some seriously boring bits.It's not all bad, it managed too keep me mostly attentive for four hours which, coincidentally is exactly how long it took me to read it, as i did not want to put it down fearing i would put it back on the shelf unfinished. I do hate having unfinished books on my shelf, they stare at me all day long and nag at my subconscious. For those who haven't seen the film we follow an emergency doctor/ghost "Lauren" and her "Postmortem tenant" they guy renting her apartment "Arther" while shes brain dead in a coma in a hospital across town. They start a strange quest to reunite Lauren with her body and inadvertently ever so obviously fall in love. There is the expected comedic sanity jokes with Arther talking to himself and his dedicated best bud/business partner trying to get him a brain scan. And a well written body snatching sequence. But Arther also has some strangely profound issues with his mother that detract largely from the story. The story also feels rushed, it seams to jump from one bit to the next without much go between and many conversation summaries that ruin the flow. Would i read it again?...no, not if don't have to: it was a nice story but i really don't feel I've gained anything from it. Who would i recommend it to? Perhaps film buffs or script students who want to learn how to arrange a book into a script.