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I really wanted to like this book. I thought the idea was great and it sounded very entertaining. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. This is a short book, but it took me twice as long as it usually would to get through it because I had to force myself to finish it. I can't really put my finger on what it was...I just didn't get into this one. I won't say it was horrible because it had its entertaining and funny parts, but all in all this was not a favorite of mine.

Cute story. Nothing spectacular, but an entertaining light read. It was a romantic/chick-lit type of story written by a guy, which made it a bit different than other stories I've read in the genre.

A lame movie was made based on this book called Just Like Heaven. Read the book, skip the movie.

This is a really cute story. the plot is much more developed and really different from the film "just like heaven"

This is one of the most fascinating books I have read.
Who knows what happens when a person is in a coma?

Arthur discovers Lauren hiding in the closet of his house . . . she is as shocked as he is. Turns out Lauren has been in a coma for many months, lying unresponsive in a hospital bed. Arthur is now renting Lauren's old house. Somehow, Lauren has managed to "teleport" herself through time and space . . . and until this moment, no one has been able to see or hear her, until Arthur.

It takes some convincing to get Arthur to believe, but once he does, he wants to help. It turns out that Lauren's mother wants to remove Lauren from life support. Find out what happens as Arthur falls in love with the image of LAuren that only he can see, hear and touch, and what happens as her body lies helpless in the hospital.

time novelist Levy scored a bestseller with this book in his native France. It is a light, frothy tale of love conquering all, even a coma. Lauren Kline, a medical resident at San Francisco Memorial Hospital, is young, beautiful, and content with her life. Then a faulty steering mechanism in her old clunker of a car causes her to suffer head injuries in a shattering car accident. As she later explains, she could hear everything around her in the hospital recovery room, but could neither move, see, nor speak. She learns that she is languishing in a coma, having somehow survived being pronounced dead. Enter Arthur, an architect and partner in a restoration firm, who recently moved into an apartment and finds it comes equipped with an unexpected bonus-Lauren. Well, her spirit, anyway, since her body continues to reside in the very hospital in which she worked. She's not dead, so the apartment-dwelling Lauren is not actually a ghost, and she seems to have form and substance, but only Arthur can see and hear her. Readers learn that for months she has been psychically transporting her spirit all over the city until she finally comes back to her own apartment-now Arthur's. This feel-good story is an easy and engrossing read, and it should be particularly popular with teen girls.

Really fun read. Sexy guy.

excellent book though different than the movie and alot better.

Charming fluff, with some thought-provoking ideas.

Very cute story, warm and fuzzy.

Very cute book just like the movie with the same premise "Just like heaven".

This book is the book that Just Like Heaven was based on. Great book!

Loved this book much better then the movie

What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet and she tells you that her body is in a coma across town? Should you send her to a psychiatrist? Consult one yourself? Or do you believe, and allow yourself to be swept up in an extraordinary adventure?
That is the dilemma Arthur faces when he discovers Lauren in his San Francisco apartment. He is the only person who can see her, hear her, talk to her; no one else even senses her presence. So when doctors prepare to end Lauren's physical care---and destroy the magical bond she and Arthur share---he must find a way to save her. For it is only her love that can save him in return.