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A review by hedonicbooks
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
5.0
This book... *gulp*
My predictions were in fact correct. I cried my eyes out throughout the last 70 pages.
T. J. Klune is quite the storyteller, isn't he?
Here we are again, thrust in a magical world, where people get a chance to discover and accept themselves.
It's the first time that I actually like all the characters in a book. Even the annoying ones. They all made sense and everything came full circle by the end.
This is the story of Wallace, a closed off lawyer, who spends his life in a day to day routine, working and basically being mean to everyone. He's a workaholic with no regard to other people's feelings. He unexpectedly dies and arrives at Hugo's teashop, where he is supposed to acknowledge what happened to him and move on. And he does way more than that.
The pacing of the book is definitely slow, but I didn't mind. It felt a tiny bit repetitive at times, but it didn't distract from the plot.
As much as I dislike comparing two books by the same author (since they're not part of a series), I did like The House in the Cerulean Sea a bit more.
My favourite character is by far Nelson. His interactions with the other characters are absolutely hilarious. I found myself grinning so hard, my cheeks actually hurt.
My predictions were in fact correct. I cried my eyes out throughout the last 70 pages.
T. J. Klune is quite the storyteller, isn't he?
Here we are again, thrust in a magical world, where people get a chance to discover and accept themselves.
It's the first time that I actually like all the characters in a book. Even the annoying ones. They all made sense and everything came full circle by the end.
This is the story of Wallace, a closed off lawyer, who spends his life in a day to day routine, working and basically being mean to everyone. He's a workaholic with no regard to other people's feelings. He unexpectedly dies and arrives at Hugo's teashop, where he is supposed to acknowledge what happened to him and move on. And he does way more than that.
The pacing of the book is definitely slow, but I didn't mind. It felt a tiny bit repetitive at times, but it didn't distract from the plot.
As much as I dislike comparing two books by the same author (since they're not part of a series), I did like The House in the Cerulean Sea a bit more.
My favourite character is by far Nelson. His interactions with the other characters are absolutely hilarious. I found myself grinning so hard, my cheeks actually hurt.