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Average rating4.1
Witty, haunting and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a home. From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. But he begins to suspect she's right, and he is in fact dead. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth. Yet even in death, he refuses to abandon his life - even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting colleagues and hectoring employees. He'd had no time for frivolities like fun and friends. But as Wallace drinks tea with Hugo and talks to his customers, he wonders if he was missing something. The feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident ghost, manifests embarrassing footwear and notices the stars. So when he's given one week to pass through the door to the other side, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in just seven days. Fans of A Man Called Ove and The Good Place will fall for this queer love story by TJ Klune. Praise for TJ Klune: 'I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect' - V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 'A modern fairy tale about learning your true nature and what you love and will protect. It's a beautiful book' - Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series 'A whimsical, warm-hearted fantasy' - Guardian 'Fans of queer fantasy won't want to miss this' - Publishers Weekly
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I loved this book. As to be expected from a book written by T.J. Klune, it is a story told with humor. It's full of interesting characters telling a story about human relationships.
Mr. Klune has again made me weep over one of his books. The last few chapters of this are rough but it ultimately has a happy ending so don't be deterred. This is an interesting take on death and the afterlife with some romance and a lot of mysticism/magical realism. It reminded me a lot of [b:Elsewhere 359410 Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1442686280l/359410.SX50.jpg 349532] with a bit of Dead Like Me thrown in; both of which are favourite things so I was hooked in easily. Warren Price, our main character, is an asshole lawyer who has everything and nothing and meets his ultimate end rather unexpectedly. What's even more unexpected is what happens next, and how a bit of purgatory and the people he meets there was the best thing to ever happen to him. It's just too bad he's already dead.
I wish I liked it more. It's just that the story is ... boring. Pretty disappointing when this is the type of story and storyline that I like.
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