Under the Whispering Door

Eine wundervolle literarische Reise. Für mich genauso stark wie Mr. Parnassus. T.J. Klunes Worte ziehen einen komplett in den Bann und lassen von seinen Geschichten träumen. Auch die charakterliche Entwicklung ist wieder ganz wunderbar zeigt: wer du bist musst du nicht bleiben, nicht mal im Tod. Wer möchte nach diesem Buch nicht mal einen Besuch in Hugos Tea Shop wagen? ...weiterlesen

Mr. Klune strikes again: another wholesome comfort book. <3 Another story where you just wanna climb into and live with all these lovely characters. When Wallace Price died he was... well... he was an asshole. A selfish, ruthless human being, who knew nothing about empathy or sympathy. Who hid away behind a mask of coldness, who rather blamed anyone else for everything but himself. But when he died... he somehow started living. With the help of the other four main characters Mei, Hugo, Nelson and the dog Apollo (the best boy in town). His character development and his redemption arc are amazingly planned and written. Since it's dealing with death as its central topic, it's much darker than "The House In The Cerulean Sea". But that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. As a person who was confronted with the death of a loved one not so long ago, I found comofort in this book and in the imagination that there really might be something left after death. Once you're really into the story and the writing, you can't put it down anymore and you find yourself feeling a constant urge to finish the book, although you really don't want it to end. It's that kind of book where you just wanna grab a cup of tea and crawl under a nice cozy blanket while a storm is raging. It's that kind of a book, where you'll forget everything around you and even though it's much darker than cerulean sea, it lack's nothing of it's comfort. You found a home in the house in the cerulean sea, and now you found another home in the magical building of Charon's Crossing. ...weiterlesen