"I Am The Messenger" is about a teenage taxi driver named Ed, who has a few friends, a not-so-great family, and a small apartment where him and his dog live. One day, Ed stops a bank robbery and becomes a local hero. That's when the cards start arriving. Anonymous playing cards are sent to him in the mail, each with either addresses or names of people he needs to help. He becomes "the messenger," hence the title of the book. Ed delivers each "message," no matter how strenuous or odd it might be. Towards the end of the book, the messages get ore personal until the final message--himself. What i liked about this book was that I had never read anything like it. At some parts it was kind of repetitive and boring, but for the most part i found it really interesting. I also like that there was a message in the book for the reader at the end, which is that if a low-life like Ed can help so many people, "maybe everyone can live a life beyond what they're capable of" (357). The book obviously left me thinking about this quote. It's not as if I'm going to go out and help everybody no matter what it takes like Ed did, but I am more aware now that not everything is as perfect as it seems. Overall, I loved this book, because for the most part I loved the plot, and I especially liked how it was written. I really felt like Ed was telling me a story while we were sitting in his living room with his dog on the floor next to us. He had a really interesting and amusing narrative voice, which really was the icing on the cake for this book.
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