The First Phone Call from Heaven chronicles the lives of several members of a small town where a miracle has seemingly occurred – residents are receiving phone calls from deceased loved ones. When the town and the phone calls become worldwide news, there are staunch believers, insistent protestors, a skeptic pastor, and a man that will do anything to prove that it’s all a hoax.
I felt like for most of the book we are supposed to believe that the phone calls are real. While I believe in Heaven, if this was to happen in real life, I would definitely be one of the skeptics. Because of that, I just kept waiting for when we would find out what really was happening and it was a good ways into the story before I figured it out – and even longer until it’s actually revealed. Though I did figure it out, there was another twist that I didn’t see coming.
Interwoven with the story is the history of Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. While some of the information was interesting, I really don’t see how it added anything to the story. It was one of those times where I felt like the author was just saying, “hey, look at all the research I did!”