Drop Dead Gorgeous

Rachel Gibson

Apr 2022 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

This “funny and touching” (Lauren Layne, New York Times bestselling author) fish-out-of-water tale from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gibson explores what happens when a small-town Texas girl swaps bodies with a filthy rich socialite.

On her way from singing in church to hooking up with a Tinder date, Brittany Lynn Snider crashes her momma’s minivan, and her life is changed forever. One moment she’s texting HotGuyNate, and the next she’s at a hospital in El Paso watching doctors operate on her near-lifeless body. If that wasn’t bad enough, she finds herself trapped in the Limbo Lounge where patients await their fate, playing cards and watching reruns of 7th Heaven and Heaven Help Us.

When a shimmering portal appears, it pulls Brittany upward toward heaven—until the lounge’s resident bully, a wealthy socialite named Edie, leaps through first and steals Brittany’s place. Brittany now has a second chance at life on Earth, but with a catch: she must inhabit Edie’s body.

Waking up as Edie in a mental facility where doctors try to cure her alleged retrograde amnesia, Brittany resumes a life of privilege in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Yet even as she basks in luxury and reconnects with Edie’s old flame, Brittany plans to return to her old life in Texas. But when things don’t go according to her plan, she must ask herself: Who is Brittany Lynn Snider, and what does she want now?

And where’s Edie? Did she manage to make it past the pearly gates?

“Laugh-out-loud funny with quirky characters and heartfelt moments, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a little slice of heaven” (Elizabeth Thompson, author of Lost in Paris).

Ratings and reviews

Little did I know the title is so apropos! Food for thought on this contemporary women's fiction journey. I would not class it as romance, rather a fictitious awakening to the elements of which most of us aren't aware. A comedy of serious content. Where do our spirits go after death? What are they doing while the physical body is healing, or giving up? This gives a rather hilarious synopsis of what it could be like, but if you think you're gonna fast-track yourself to heaven, you'd better think again. Two women, Brittany and Eide, total opposites, get switched due to Eide thinking she deserved to get to heaven. God doesn't get mad, I believe He gets justice. So Brittany gets a second chance as Eide to be a good-hearted person and maybe redemption. Meanwhile, Eide turned Brittany, has to stay in the spirit lounge as a concierge helping spirits with their comings and goings. Received thru NetGalley. Giving my own opinions.

Drop Dead Gorgeous has such an interesting premise, and I've loved some of Rachel Gibson's past books, so I jumped at the chance to read this one. Brittany Lynn Snider gets into a car accident on her way to a Tinder date and winds up in limbo between her real life and the after life. Someone else winds up stealing her chance for the afterlife, so she takes over that girl's life instead. Complicated much? Rachel Gibson is an incredibly talented author, and there were parts of this story that were really funny and interesting, but parts of it were a little awkward. Drop Dead Gorgeous definitely gives you things to think on, but I had a difficult time with the overall premise and the romance felt like an afterthought to the story.

About the author

Rachel Gibson is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of over twenty-five novels, including The Art of Running in Heels, Just Kiss Me, and How Lulu Lost Her Mind. She has received the RITA Award, the Golden Heart, the National Readers’ Choice Award, and more.