I haven’t ruined any of the surprise of this book. This is all in the first chapter of the book (and a little bit chapter two.) This is all premise.

Following her accident, Holly Chase awakens in an office building in Manhattan where she finds out that she has been recruited by this secret organization Project Scrooge, and she must now function as the new Ghost of Christmas Past (GCP.) Six days later, Holly Chase dies a tragic death. Unlike Dickens’s Scrooge, Holly is not swayed by their warnings. The ghosts come and Holly blows them off as if they’re unimportant and figments of her imagination. Holly Chase is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of her deceased stepmother who warns her that she will be visited by three ghosts. Sixteen–almost seventeen–years old, five foot seven, 115 pounds, brown eyes, blond hair, killer fashion sense, and a perfectly horrible human being. I could spend time trying to tell you about Holly Chase, the protagonist, but she describes herself pretty accurately.

I did something different (and the entire world gasped a collective gasp because that really is very out of character for me.) This year, instead, I read The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand. Making it my most reread book.īut this year, I changed it up. Hagens, my seventh grade English teacher guiding us through it. I read this book for the first time in the 7th grade. (And I tear up every time, like it’s the first time.) Y’all. Every year at Christmas, I read through Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. You know, try to start friendly conversation. I just was trying to get the ball rolling. That is totally unrelated to this review. Is it weird to stage book blog pictures in the middle of a busy, dimly lit coffee shop? Asking for a friend, of course. The first thing you should probably know is that Yvonne Worthington Chase was dead.Īllow me to pose a hypothetical question.

The after life of holly chase