If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. She’s entered the afterlife wearing the sort of pyjamas you don’t want anyone to see and finds herself face-to-face with the most handsome man she’s ever encountered. And he’s smiling at her.
As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise – until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth.
In a twist of fate, Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to her previous life and reconnect with the mysterious man she’s sure is her soulmate.
The challenge? She only has ten days to find him.
Ten days to make him fall for her.
Oh, and he has no recollection of them ever having met…
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I loved Yours Truly by Kirsty Greenwood so I was excited to
read another of her books and her new release The Love of My Afterlife sounded
like a fresh take on a rom-com that was just what I needed.
We meet our FMC Delphi as she has just died after choking on
a burger!
Yes, an unusual start to a novel and one I am sure none of
us have come across before. As she is welcomed by her afterlife therapist she
then meets Jonah and experiences a romantic connection she has never had in her
life, could this be her soul mate?
Her meeting with him is short- lived though as Jonah is
there in error and gets sent back to real life and Delphi makes a deal with her
therapist to return to the living and find Jonah who will have no recollection
of her and make him full for her and kiss her!
Yes this was a completely far-fetched storyline but that didn’t
matter one iota, I loved every second of it. Delphi has never really lived
life, she keeps herself to herself has no friends or boyfriends which was so
sad considering what a lovely woman she is but this challenge made her push
herself out of her comfort zone as she needed all the help she could get to
complete her task but never did she anticipate that she may actually make some
friends and maybe more along the way.
There were some funny bits here and there too which had me
chuckling away and the old romantic in me really wanted Delphi to experience
the perfect love story she deserved.
I loved that this storyline was so refreshing being unlike
any I had read before as I have been moving more into Fantasy and Thriller
recently with romance books all seeming to blend into one or being so full of
smut that there is no storyline alongside it but this book has got me back to
the romance that I always loved. This was light hearted, fast paced, witty and
romantic all in one.
I could kind of see where the storyline was going to go but
I still didn’t quite work out how the author was going to end the storyline and
when the revelation was made I did have a little pull on the heart string, but
it is certainly not a tear jerker so don’t be put off for those who do not like
sad books ( as I know a few of you have asked this whilst I was reading)
This is a brilliant read by Kirsty Greenwood, she has brought my love of romance back.
