This book left me totally cold. It's hard to feel sad about a girl's death when she is the narrator AFTER it. She seemed very alive and not really suffering too much. Especially with the assertion that in heaven you have only to wish for something to make it happen. The story of her murder is equally proposterous. It seems impossible for the murderer to have done everything that he did and never be seen by anyone especially given the location of the crime scene. Her parents reactions seem forced as if the writer had a list of the steps that a grieving family goes thru and went down it one by one checking off emotions. The ending left me completely unsatisfied. It was totally contrived and obviously constructed to tie up any loose ends without thought to wether or not it made sense.