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by Kirsty Greenwood (July 2, 2024) – Thank you to @berkleyromance and @prhaudio for the gifted print and digital copies of this hilarious and heartwarming book that I loved from the very first page – below is my honest review.

Delphine dies alone in her apartment after choking on a microwavable hamburger, only to awaken in the intake lobby for the afterlife. When newly dead Jonah also arrives, Delphine finally feels that spark of soulmate-level connection she’d wanted her whole life. Only now she’s dead. But through a clerical error, Jonah isn’t supposed to be there, and he returns to his (very much alive) self on Earth. Taking pity on Delphine, her romance novel-loving Afterlife intake specialist offers her a deal. Since her body has yet to be discovered, Delphine can return but only has ten days to find Jonah had have him kiss her of his own free will. If successful, Delphine can stay. If not, she must return to the afterlife. Thus begins a quirky, chaotic, wildly funny, and often tender series of misadventures in which Delphine discovers how to truly live only after she has died.

This was one of those books where, after the first chapter, you know you are going to read until you finish. I did not put it down but bounced between the audio and print versions. It was a wickedly funny, incredibly heartfelt story about how to reshape your life, decide who you want to be a part of, create your own family, work through loss, and discover the people who would love you were with you all along. I love it when a story can deliver complexity and hilarity in a way that augments both, and Greenwood 100% delivers with this book—I loved it.  

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