Under the Whispering Door
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #8
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Our view
“Under the Whispering Door” is a gentle fantasy about death and grief that manages to be funny as well as tender. Its strength is the change in Wallace, who begins as a man hard to like and ends as one readers grieve for, thanks to the patient Hugo and his odd tea-shop household. Some find the subject hard going despite the soft tone, and some the ending overlong. For readers who want comfort without evasion.
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About the book
"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. 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"--
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 734 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 83% of the weight and the score stays at 8.2 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 21 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 713 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is Under the Whispering Door?
It has 400 pages — shorter than 78% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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