But we’ll be by your side.” Under the Whispering Door, We won’t carry you because you don’t need us to. “But as long as we’re together, we can help each other until the end. If you’re meant to know what it is, you will.” Under the Whispering Door, I know it might be hard to understand, but not everything is about you, Wallace.

“You’re just not hearing what you want to hear. “If we worry about the little things all the time, we run the risk of missing the bigger things.” Under the Whispering Door, Plus, there’s a little bit of me if I ever share these books with people in my life. As a result, I can go back and share my favorite passages. One thing I’ve started doing more is “book tabbing”! I won’t write in a book, but the page flags are just amazing for this. The opportunity to continue to make a difference…it’s something that can inspire a lot of hope. TJ Klune took this concept to such an easily accessible place. The concept of the afterlife is a heavy one, yet one that’s universal regardless of religion. One thing I did appreciate was that Under the Whispering Door was a bit funnier! When you’re reading a book as emotional and beautiful as this one, with such a heavy storyline, a little bit of laughter is delightful. Also, somehow, people living on as ghosts was less believable than an island with a bunch of creatures. This one felt a little slow in parts, like it was unnecessarily long. Under the Whispering Door was beautiful, but I do think that The House in the Cerulean Sea was better. 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. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.Īnd when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.īut 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. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

I also have an advanced reader copy of his next book In the Lives of Puppets (Publishes April 25, 2023), so stay tuned for that one! The Story I fell in love with The House in the Cerulean Sea last year, and then was lucky enough to get a copy of Under the Whispering Door from our holiday book exchange! P.S.

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