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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.
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A less engaging version of House in the Cerulean Sea. Did I still have a great time reading it? 100%. I loved the concept and enjoyed the story.
0Overall the book was okay. At times it would make me laugh and smile, other times I was question marks lol. I felt like the romance was rushed and that the overall storyline of death with the main character was left unfinished? Idk. This was like an “eh” read, thought it would’ve been a lot better but it could’ve been worse
0Not this book having me crying on an airplane!! I'll admit I had really high expectations after reading The House in the Cerulean Sea, and I think I put this book off a while out of fear it wouldn't be able to compare. In some ways, it actually compared a little too well and there were a lot of parallels in parts of the story, not necessarily redundant but it followed a similar formula. And I felt Wallace's character development was a little too quick in the beginning, I'd have actually liked to see it build a bit more gradually. I'd say for the first two thirds or so of the book it was landing somewhere at a 3.5, I liked it but it wasn't anything I'd really tell anyone to run to read right now.
That said, the last third packed a MASSIVE punch. Cameron's storyline in particular was devastating and beautiful and the way it was written was just so so good and captivating, and that part was actually quite unexpected. Worthwhile read just for that. Tears started around there and really kind of kept going through the end, which is a pretty impressive amount of time to keep a reader in an emotional chokehold. I'm a sucker for a good ending and this one got me good enough to say the less ideal bits are the start are worth looking past, especially because if you hadn't read The House in the Cerulean Sea this book would stand really well on its own. I think I still personally favor the other just because of my preference for the totally different world of magical creatures in it, but anyone who prefers keeping it a little more grounded in the realistic and just playing with ideas of supernatural in what comes after death would probably enjoy this book more.
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