Reviewed by Ro

TITLE: Heaven Can’t Wait

AUTHOR: Eli Easton

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 79 pages

RELEASE DATE: March 21, 2024

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When Brian Matheson dies at nineteen, his soul is in limbo. He has one chance to redeem himself before he’s sent to perdition. All Brian has to do is save the life of Kevin Anderson, a boy he and his friends tormented for being gay.

Kevin thought he’d finally escaped bullying. But his college roommate, Chuck, and his homophobic pals, prove him wrong. Now he can only wait for another room to open up—and try to keep his eyes off sexy, uber-straight Chuck.

Chuck is struggling to keep up the tough-guy façade everyone expects, but being trapped in a dorm room with the prettiest twink he’s ever seen isn’t helping.

If Brian can untangle this mess, he’ll deserve his wings.

Heaven Can’t Wait is a tongue-in-cheek romance featuring college roommates secretly crushing on each other, a meddling angel wannabe,
mishaps, temptation, and the meaning of life. No biggie.

REVIEW:

So Brian is/was 19 when he is driving too fast and ends up smashed by a semi-truck. He is dead, but dead isn’t what he thought it would be. When it is time to decide whether he goes to “heaven” or “hell”, he is put on the scales. Gold is good, and red is bad. What he ends up getting is gray. He’s in the gray area, limbo. In order to get himself back to the gold, he has to save a life within two weeks.  A specific life, but the angel Peter, a sarcastic silent-footed marvel, just shows him a picture of Kevin, who is Brian’s best friend’s roommate.

Kevin, with his white-blond hair, shy smile, and musical bent, is lovely. His parents, too, “His mom and dad said that to him a lot – you’re a boy, not a girl. And every time they said it a little part of Kevin died. Because what they were really saying was that they were uncomfortable with how feminine he was, even though he’d never told them I’m gay”. He was so excited to get away from everything he put up with in high school and start over in college. Except college, thanks to Brian and company, hasn’t been great. Brian even has to be shown a video of their first day of college when he is horrible to Kevin. The words “you started it” prove that Kevin’s horrible college experience started with Brian.

As Brian tries to save a life, he makes a mess, over and over. The story is short, so I don’t want to give away too much but I loved Kevin. And I ended up loving Chuck, because you can see the weight he has been carrying. The ways Brian tries to help are really not well thought out but I was really pulling for these guys and for Brian to learn something. I admit, I love the idea of how this afterlife could be.

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