Book Review : "Et Après" (G. Musso)

Easy reading (in French). The English translated title is "Afterwards". Story of a character who has seen Death and came back... when he was 8. Now he is a famous lawyer in New-York (not sure to understand why the story cannot be in France... But New-York and the States will do!), unfortunately divorced from his longlife friend and with a little daughter.
Well, the promises from the back cover are unfortunately not fulfilled. The book is easy and quickly read and when you reach the end, you cannot recall what was catching you attention at the beginning (I bought this book for a reason, didn't I?). The story is plane and no real action in it. OK, it is no fantasy or criminology involved. But still even I can appreciate a book with none of the two fore mentioned pieces. But this one ... well, no. I saw the author in a French program and there as well they were welling him really much (another reason catching my interest for the book!).
The story is so simple and still kept me reading every page... Must have been something in it!
A bit too cliché for me to have this handsome guy from the poor side of the town falling in love with the daughter of the family where his mom is a made... and this same guy will work his *ss off to become the greatest lawyer ever... you read it well, it felt a bit of a "déjà-vu" (or here "Déjà-lu"!).
But still what kept me reading and reading in this book. No idea. I can even recognise that it was the second time I read it (Yapp! I had borrowed it from my lill' sis a while ago... and forgot to give it back...But now I know!).

To summarize rapidly a book read even quicker, I would not recommend highly this book. If you have a few hours to kill at the airport because your plane is delayed, do like me: Buy it, read it, and well you'll forget it pretty quick as well. But while reading it is still a nice feeling throughout the reading.

So if in search for near-death-experience story, start here (no surnatural or strange stuff, only basc for beginners). I am grading this book with a 5/10 and will actually read another book from the same author and see how it goes...

Ooops! Forgot to mentioned that this book has been "translated" into a movie recently... Any comment on it?