Review: Vinnie's Diner - Jennifer Allee

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Review: Vinnie's Diner - Jennifer Allee - April 2015

Wanting to win the grand prize money for her Aunty's medical bills, Allie decides to hit the road and enter a trivia contest in LA. Growing up Allie learned more unknown and useless facts than anybody as she spent more time with her Aunt Bobbie whom was a trivia buff. On her way to the contest, Allie has a car accident and she finds herself rescued and taken to a diner known as Vinnie's Diner. This diner though , seems normal from the outside but on the inside things are a bit odd as the people inside the diner remind her of the past - of old writers, celebrities and inventors. The waitress is called Norma Jean - getting the hint ? . Turns out that Vinnie's Diner is almost like a purgatory stop and that Vinnie has been sent by God to show Allie about her past and to help her come to the decision of which road she will want to take ? This was a really fun novel and reminded me of the christian film - The Encounter where a group of cars get stranded in a storm and have to take refuge in a diner only to discover that the owner of the diner is in fact a representation of God and the bad cop is a representation of the Devil or in the case of Vinnie's Diner - the bad guy is known as Ba'al and God is known as Joe. The other show that the book reminded me was of the episode on NCIS where Gibbs was shot and he went to the Diner and was faced with people from his past which is what Allie is faced with but in photos and memories as she is presented with a treasure chest filled with baggage that she must get through and resolve before she can leave and make the decision to leave the earthly world or stay behind and live her life.
This is one book that readers will not be able to put down and it also gives readers the insight and wondering of if you were to die tomorrow, who would be in your past and would you still be holding onto unresolved baggage and issues ?
Find out in Jennifer Allee's new book "Vinnie's Diner".

 

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