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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 funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.

This was a very interesting book with a unique perspective on life and death. (I wasn’t sure whether it’s considered fantasy or supernatural.) The interpretation of what death might look like in a God-less world was so creative–the concept immediately pulled me in because I wanted to see what the author came up with.

The writing vacillated between attention grabbing and a little too much description; I flew through some chapters while trudging through others. I was a little annoyed at Hugo, Mei, and Nelson in the beginning (demanding trust), but everyone’s stories and the characters themselves pulled me in and kept me reading.

As a Christian*, it’s a bit sad, but also eye opening to see how others might try to rationalize and process death. The creativity, however, is fascinating.

Rated PG/PG-13 for mature themes.
*This story does contain homosexual relationships, though nothing graphic is shown.

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