A review by sarahesterman
The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

2.0

After hearing such good things about The Love of My Afterlife, I expected something different than what it was. While I don’t believe books can be “overhyped”—taste is subjective—I just thought it was going to be a different book altogether. 

And it’s not that I didn’t read the blurb, because I did! I was definitely expecting a paranormal rom com. Which I guess it is, in a way. But I wasn’t expecting so much of the humor to be based on the heroine absolutely and completely humiliating herself. I don’t generally find that sort of thing funny. I don’t want to laugh at the heroine getting into ridiculously embarrassing situations, I want to root for her and have the humor come from external situations or dialogue. 

I did, however, like the found family and community aspects. But even that at times felt unbelievable. But most unbelievable (despite the whole afterlife thing) was the end. Spoiler, but

there’s no way that man would have been allowed out of the hospital the day he woke up form a 12-week coma. He would’ve had a feeding tube!! It made no sense. Even if he seemed in perfect health, they would’ve kept him for observation for several days. No sense was made. None at all. 

Anyway, it wasn’t for me. 

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