the afterlife of holly chase by cynthia hand

There’s also the transducer, which allows Holly to look at the Scrooge’s thoughts and memories.

The gadgets that Project Scrooge uses are really cool! There’s the Hoodie, a jacket that turns the wearer invisible when they put the hood up.

I think it would’ve been smarter to keep at least the first month or two that Holly is at Project Scrooge so the reader can learn about everything while Holly does.

There were terms and names and details being thrown at me that I didn’t know anything about. So when the story skips ahead five years, I was really confused. We don’t get to learn with Holly about how the company works and who’s who and all those important details. I wanted to see Holly’s adjustment period as she came to terms with the fact that she was dead and was expected to work at Project Scrooge now. Once Holly dies, the story skips five years into Holly’s time at Project Scrooge. These chapters felt sort of rushed to me, like it was a recap of something we should already know. The first few chapters describe Holly’s life before she dies. So I’m glad that Cynthia Hand gave the reader a lot of details about Holly early on in the book. It’s especially irksome to me when the author does give a physical description, but it’s so far into the story that I have already created a mental image of the character that’s completely different from what the author describes. A pet peeve of mine is when an author just gives the reader one defining feature of the main character, such as their eye color. We get everything from her hair color to her height, which made it easier for me to picture her. The author gives us a very detailed physical description of Holly near the beginning of the book. Despite all this, she grew on me, so much so that by the end of the book I was rooting for her to get what she wanted. She’s self-absorbed, rude to her housekeeper, and doesn’t show any emotion at her stepmother’s funeral. Holly is definitely a Scrooge-like character when we first meet her. This book centers around a girl named Holly Chase. So far, Holly’s afterlife has been miserable.īut this year, everything is about to change. Every year, Holly stays frozen at seventeen while her family and friends go on living without her.

Now she’s stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge–as the latest Ghost of Christmas Past.Įvery year, they save another miserly grouch. 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. It was a fun Christmas-themed book that put us in the holiday mood. My book club chose The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand for our December book.

The afterlife of holly chase by cynthia hand