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But people had said there was a payoff and they were right.

This book kinda dragged for me until past the halfway mark.

This book really touched me in the end, making the heavy subject of death very thought provoking.

The characters, as always, are deep, complex and loveable.

Thanks to Tor Books and for allowing me to read this ahead of publication. Klune’s previous book “House on the Cerulean Sea” so this was one of my most anticipated books for this year. I will definitely give this one a physical read at some point in the future, but for now Whispering Door receives 3 stars.📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Under the Whispering DoorĪUTHOR: T.J. There is a trigger warning at the beginning of the novel in the form of an author’s note that the book deals various types of death including suicide. Maybe I was wanting more adorable kids and we just don’t get them in this novel.

Whispering Door does have a similar feel to Cerulean Sea and it seems that the two books are in the same universe as there were a couple of references to Cerulean Sea. The beginning of the novel did have my attention, as did the last portion, but I seemed to tune out the rest. It could also be that I did not connect with Wallace as he was a bit of an a**hole, but that is the point of the book and his change over the course of the novel, but still… This will be yet another book I will need to actually read in the future versus listening to the audiobook. Maybe it was that Fantasy isn’t one of my typical genres, maybe I wasn’t in the mindset needed for listening to this one, maybe it was the narrator… I’m not really sure.

I absolutely adored the audiobook of Cerulean Sea, so I was looking forward to Whispering Door, but for some reason it did not work for me. Under the Whispering Door is a contemporary fantasy about a ghost who refuses to cross over and the ferryman he falls in love with. When the Manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives Wallace one week to cross over, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days. With Hugo’s help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life. Hugo is the tea shop’s owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over.īut Wallace isn’t ready to abandon the life he barely lived. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead.