Rating: 5 stars (Spotlight Review)

"One lifetime isn't enough to make all the trouble of which I'm capable"

What a way to describe one's life...and afterlife. Raziela "Razi" Nolan has both. In her former life -- before moving on to the "between" after her death in 1929 -- she was a graduate of Tulane, her sights set on being a gynecologist, and disseminating information to unmarried women about birth control...back in the day when that just wasn't done.

Razi is more than that, as the book is defined by her neverending love for Andrew O'Connell. Even after 70 years, she still wonders what happened to her beloved Andrew, but it is too painful to search for him. And she is restrained by the "rules" of the between -- not to visit those she loved from before. Instead she attaches herself to Andrew's bookcase, bought by Amy and Scott...a couple in love but with the shadow of tragedy hanging over them. Like Razi, Amy is unable to get over her fiance after he died 6 years before.

As the story unfolds, Razi has a connection to the young couple after she resolves to find out what happened to Andrew.

This book has been compared to The Lovely Bones, but I never read it so I can read this without any expectations. The story draws the reader into both worlds, as the timeline flips back and forth between present and past. Sometimes it lacks a distinctive voice, but it is no less an excellent book. It is beautifully written, as ethereal as Razi herself.