The Love of My Afterlife: A GMA Book Club Pick
A GMA Book Club Pick
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4.4 • 311 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!”
—Colleen Hoover, New York Times bestselling author
A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up…
If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she’s standing in her ‘shine like a star’ nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her.
As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.
When Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to earth and reconnect with the mysterious man, she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start. But in a city of millions, Delphie is going to have to listen to her heart, learn to ask for help, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind…
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Timing is a major issue for the heroine of this supernatural romance. Deeply unconfident Delphie Bookham is a lonely 27-year-old virgin who, after choking on a bite of cheeseburger, finds herself in a sort of purgatory. That’s where she experiences love at first sight with Jonah, another recent arrival. But the joke’s on her—he’s there due to an admin glitch and gets sent back to Earth. So a kind overseer decides to give Delphie 10 days back in the land of the living to find Jonah and earn his love. Kirsty Greenwood makes us feel what it’s like to be Delphie—with all her anxiety—while letting us laugh at every outrageous turn of fate she encounters. Greenwood’s prose makes you feel like you’re right there, sharing Delphie’s literally death-defying search for Mr. Right.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Greenwood (He Will Be Mine) brings larger-than-life characters to a boisterous death-defying rom-com. Delphie wasn't supposed to die at 27, unfulfilled and lonely, but at least when she wakes up in the afterlife, she immediately runs smack into Jonah, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately, it turns out he's only visiting on a dental-anaesthetic trip, so Delphie makes an impulsive deal with her romance-obsessed afterlife therapist, Merritt: Delphie gets 10 days to return to life and find Jonah, who may be one of her five soulmates. If she fails, she'll spend eternity as the guinea pig for Merritt's afterlife dating agency. With a chance at true love on the line, Delphie is ready to try anything, including talking to her grouchy neighbor Cooper, who agrees to help locate Jonah if Delphie will pretend to be his girlfriend at a family dinner. Soon she's seeing a whole new side to Cooper and her increasingly wild schemes to find Jonah bring her completely out of her shell, showing her for the first time what it is to live to the fullest. Greenwood is working at a large scale: the emotions are sweeping, the humor feels straight out of a network sitcom, and the characters are bold, if sometimes broad. Fans of The Good Place should snap this up.
Customer Reviews
Quickly
Loved it, get past the first 3 chapters and the fun begins.
Cutie
Super cute and easy to read. A great way to get away in a book. There were some things that were cute and predictable but I liked the ending a lot and I didn’t expect it.
Cute and Breezy
This is definitely a nice light summer read. Enjoyed the character building and some really nice reminders about how important it is to let people into your life and that relationships are the key to fulfillment. It was seemingly predictable, but not completely.