Lizzie is dead and she doesn't know it, and when she knows, she wants a second chance in life.
Short, effortless and entertaining story, perfect to read while you are waiting on the couch for your family to get ready to go out (my case) and with a nice lesson about living our lives truth to our dreams and promises.

190 pages that turn into 95 because the story is both in english and spanish.

Cute little short story, about living life to the fullest. Great for a Sunday afternoon read!

Lizzie is dead. She just doesn’t realize it yet. She goes on about her life like she normally would but people are ignoring her and it is ticking her off. Why would they do that? She was not a wallflower when. Lizzie thought herself rather popular. Lizzie has a great boyfriend even if they had been fighting a lot more lately. She had plenty of friends. She didn’t like her job, but she was good at it. Does anyone really like their job? It paid the bills and made living easier. There is so much Lizzie had planned on doing, she can’t be dead. If she had only known she would have done things differently. Wouldn’t you if you knew when you would die?

Una historia un poco floja, es la novela que menos me ha gustado de esta autora.

Una historia ligera y rápida, perfecta para comenzar a leer en inglés. El vocabulario es bastante sencillo, quizá algunas frases hechas se te pueden atravesar, pero nada del otro mundo, lo bueno de mi edición es que era bilingüe. En cuanto a la historia, bueno es entretenida para pasar un rato por la tarde y sin duda sacas una moraleja: aprovecha el momento.

Clever concept. I'd have liked a lot more development, because it felt sort of shallow and I enjoy Keyes' work. Still, I thought it was worth reading.

Antes de empezar tengo que decir que Marian es mi escritora favorita, desde el primer libro que leí de ella que fue ¿Quien te lo ha contado? y hasta la actualidad todo los que he leído de ella me ha encantado.

Eso no quiere decir que cuando me llego a mis manos Lizzie ha vuelto quede un poco rara, no es lo que se dice un libro libro, mas bien es un relato, la parte buena es que esta en ingles por si se quiere practicar, cosa que no es mi caso.

Como es una historia tan corta esta como todo tan rápido y no te agarras al libro como con otras de sus lecturas.
La protagonista nos pone a todos un poco nerviosos, porque nadie quiere morir así de improvisto y menos si aun no te has despedido de tus seres queridos y has dejado todo a medias, por ese motivo y porque el personaje no tiene lo que se dice un final feliz sino un final en el que no le toca otra cosa que aceptar lo que le paso pues es como que te deja......así sin saber muy bien.

Pero bueno como ya sabemos y como nos los da a entender en el relato, la vida es efímera y la muerte siempre esta ahí para los vivos, así que hay que aprovechar al máximo el momento.

Y que este relato no les haga pensar que los libros de Marian te dejan con este sabor de boca, animo a tod@s que lean sus libros.

CARPE DÍEM

Lizzie has had an argument with her boyfriend last night, she gets up leaves for work and thinks it'll all blow over. After a busy day at the office Lizzie rides her bike home but gets hit by a car. As passers by rush to assist her Lizzie gets up and inform them she's fine, but is she?

When Lizzie gets home all she wants is some sympathy from her boyfriend, but all she's gets is the cold shoulder as he completely ignores her. Lizzie goes to bed hoping that the ill feelings she's experiencing will pass.

The next day at the office, all he colleagues are off with her and she can not work out what everyone's problem is, that is until she reaches her office where two spirits await her arrival. The inform Lizzie she dies yesterday and she's infarct dead!

Another great ODS and by an author who's work I always love to read. I didn't find this gripping but it was more intriguing.

Hmmm... So, now what?

Me gustan mucho las novelas de Marián Keyes porque habla de temas importantes (maltrato, adicciones…) pero siempre te saca unas risas con su ácido humor. Suelen ser historias ligeras de leer pero con un trasfondo que te deja algún aprendizaje. Sin embargo, ésta no es una novela, más bien un relato muy corto, que en un rato se lee, aunque diría que prescindible de hacerlo.

I really like Marian Keyes' books, but this isn't a book. It's more of a short story written in a pamphlet type format. It was 80 or so pages, but the pages were about 4"x3".

I don't know anything about the Open Door Series, and perhaps if I did, I wouldn't have bothered with this "book." I'm guessing that the whole series is about life after death or what happens when we die or something existential with religious overtones to it. Not my thing. I'd probably of not given it any stars at all, but as I mentioned, I'm a Keyes fan, and it was a bit entertaining, at least for a little while.

Didn't realize how short this book would be until I started listening to it... it's a nice book but not in my top 10 of favorites by Marion Keyes