Review: The old switcheroo
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2012
This long short story/novella is a quirky take on the body switching story.Jack is the highly-successful nerd who made good in a big way, Bill Gates style. John is the jerk of a football player who was the big deal in high school, and was Jack's nemesis. But the real world has finally collided with John's personality and he's crashing and burning. On the way to their twentieth high school reunion, John is networking with Jack in his limo, hoping to score a last chance, when there's an accident and Jack's spirit gets returned to John's body thru divine mis-intervention in the form of a bumbling new angel named Norman. And then the fun begins.Although the motif has been done a number of times, the author does a very good job with it. The writing is very smooth and polished for a work picked up as a kindle freebie. The characters are well-developed and their personalities ring true. If you can suspend disbelief long enough to accept some of the plot devices necessary to set up the framework for the story, then you will enjoy it a lot. If you have difficulty with some of the assumptions that are made as well as the conclusion, it will be a bit unsatisfying. 3.5 stars overall.