Summary: Ed Kennedy has a fairly unexciting life before he starts getting playing cards, all aces, in the mail with cryptic instructions on them. Things get a lot more interesting after that, and he learns something about himself in the process, too.
Similarities: I'm pretty sure there's another book I've read about a guy who's hopelessly in love with his female close/best friend, but I have no idea what. This book shares with Deadeye Dick the idea that life continues after the story ends. Also, I now want to read Sophie's World again.
Reaction: Captivating. I kept wanting to know with each task what Ed's supposed to do and how he does it. Roughly 3/4 of the way through the book I notice that it was written in present tense, and that proceeds to annoy the heck out of me for awhile (not that I'm not guilty of doing that. I seem to recall a US history essay that's completely irrelevent to this review where I wrote the entire thing in present tense, and then had to go back and change it because the Boston Tea Party and events around that time are not at all present (unless they're taken in the context of the planet as a whole or even European history.) Wow I'm gotten really off-topic. Um, anyway...) I rather like the message of making the world a better place, one person at a time.
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