Reviewed by girlinthepages on
There's so many things I loved about this story. The corporate setting was hilarious in a fantasy/paranormal/retelling sort of setting (really not sure what to classify this one as!) and all to real at times now that I'm a working adult. I enjoyed reading about a protagonist who was really not that great of a person- Holly's grown some by the end of the novel but she starts off as really terrible and is really just a selfish person at the end of the day but that doesn't make her incapable of positive attributes too. I also loved her sarcastic and very teenage sounding narrative that always held a ton of contempt and distaste and a sprinkling of spoiled brat- she really reminded me of the Gossip Girl-era protagonists of the early 2000s.
Unfortunately, the book lost its way for me a little at the end- I'm still not 100% what happened and it was all wrapped up pretty conveniently. There's also a LOT of questions I still have, especially about the secondary characters (what did Blackpool do as a human? Was Dave a former Scrooge? Were the non-ghost employees humans who were alive or were they dead and stuck in purgatory too)? Yet it was still a fun and very creative take on the source material (and it's very AWARE that its based on A Christmas Carol which is fun).
Overall: One of the better YA Christmas books I've read and truly unique, The Afterlife of Holly Chase was not what I was expecting but I'm glad I read it!This review was originally posted on Girl in the Pages
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