Under the Whispering Door

Heartwarming and heartbreaking in all the right ways

Bewertung am 14.03.2022
Bewertungsnummer: 1675165
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

The perfect combination of a easy to grasp world and lovely, unique characters you quickly grow attached to. Explores the subject of death and life after death in a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic way, while teaching you some small lessons to remember. I can only recommend reading it yourself :)

A humorous and thoughtful novel about what it means to be human in the face of life and death

Bewertung am 15.06.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1961475
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

Lawyer Wallace Price finds himself unexpectly dead which is inconvenient because he has appointments to make and people to fire. But dead is dead and so he gets collected by a Reaper and ends up at Charon´s Crossing, a tea store in the middle of nowhere and an in-between stop for recently minted ghosts. There he meets Hugo, a ferryman to the afterlife and a couple of ghosts who are waiting for their right time to cross over. When Wallace refuses to cross in a timely manner he is given another week of life to make up for all the things LIFE he missed out on while being at the office. While the story occasionally goes off on a tangent with several side stories that are not strictly necessary, with its intriguing premise, vivid characters, thoughtful reflections of life in the face of death and a heartwarming love story this book about death should be a definite yes on any summer reading list!