I Am The Messenger

By S. Hof

In the mood for a good story? Try I Am The Messenger by Markus Kusak. Humor, romance, suspense, action, a coffee-drinking canine: this story has it all.

Meet Ed Kennedy, an underage cab driver whose ordinary life becomes a lot more complicated when he happens to stop a robbery. That's when he recieves the first card in the mail. For some reason or another, Ed has been chosen to travel around his city helping, and hurting when necessary, designated people.

I truly enjoyed this book. It's probably one of my favorite stories now. I couldn't get through a page without smiling at the very least, sometimes downright laughing out loud and earning myself strange looks from people around me. Probably my favorite thing about the book was the different people Ed meets. Some of them, an old woman named Milla for example, just warm your heart while others left you disgusted. But all of them cause you to look at strangers in a whole new way. They have lives, problems, memories, and sadness just like you and me, and sometimes it only takes a warm smile from a stranger to help them through another day.