The premise behind TAOHC is that unlike Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Holly does not wise up and become a better person. So I added that puppy to my April Book Outlet haul. Naturally, after reading that, my curiosity piqued. I admit I have an affinity for dark humor and anything paranormal. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. On Christmas Eve five years ago, Holly was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she’d become. When you look at the cover of TAOHC, with its doodles of stars and flowers, it screams “teenage audience.” Sure enough, the publisher name printed along the book’s spine reads Harper Teen.īut flip the book over, and this is what the back cover says: Especially ones pitched as a retelling of the Christmas classic I’ve never read. I don’t read a lot of contemporary YA novels.
I know what I like, and that’s what I gravitate toward. I’m typically into anything Stephen King, LOTS of YA fantasy ( Sarah J Maas, Leigh Bardugo, Holly Black, Victoria Aveyard), a few classics (Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Flowers For Algernon), and then YA romance like the After series by Anna Todd.
At a glance, The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand is a novel I would never pick out from the bookshelf to read.
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