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.
MY THOUGHTS
This is my first book by this author and i loved it and it has made me more excited for The house in the cerulean sea as i was really excited about it before but even more so now. This book was lovely and the relationships between everyone after Wallace gets to where Hugo and Nelson are was lovely especially Hugo and Wallace’s. I liked Mei as well and found some of the things she came out with funny i had many laugh out loud moments in this book between all the characters and some of the things Nelson does to trick Wallace were hilarious. I loved reading how Wallace and Hugo’s relationship developed into more than friendship it was lovely. And towards the end this book made me cry twice and i don’t cry at books hardly but the ending was lovely.
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