Back Cover Synopsis: protect the diamonds / survive the clubs / dig deep through the spades / feel the hearts Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?
I really enjoyed this book. One great thing about it, is it's an easy read. It keeps your attention because it's amusing and cause so many emotions. Parts of it make you angry, sad, depressed, happy, hopeful, excited. You just follow Ed's adventures every time he gets an ace. Each ace leads him to three locations, or people, who somehow need his help, or harm. At one point you don't even know if he might actually kill a guy. He meets people he absolutely despises and others that he returns to even later in the book because they touched him so much.
It just shows the different aspects of people and what happens when you care. Some people accept his help, many question it. Which would be expected in our world today. Everyone questions the motives of others. I think that's why I liked it so much. I love caring about people and helping out whenever I can, and eventually Ed enjoys it and looks forward to it. He stops focusing on the routines in his life and how he's going no where in his life and realizes there's other people out there that need him. And after it's all over, he realizes he was never really living life before, just going through the motions. There were so many different messages in this book, you get a lot out of it. Plus it's one you just don't want to put down!
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