Thank you to NetGalley, Berkley, & Penguin Random House for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.

✨ 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 ✨ B̷O̷R̷R̷O̷W̷ B̷Y̷P̷A̷S̷S̷

Absolutely. Loved. This. Book.

Ok, look ... I wasn't really sure what to expect going into this story, but I can unequivocally tell you it was not what I got - in the absolute best way possible.

I loved the characters. I loved the town. I loved the words. I loved the quirkiness. I loved the realness. I loved the joy that was threaded through the grief in such true and believable ways.

This is a ghost story - but it's also a love story. It's about a girl that has stopped believing in love and a boy that no longer has a reason to believe, but still does. It's about a mother and a father and their love story, and it's about their children growing up and growing apart and then finding one another again as adults.

It's a book about books, and how the right words come to us at the most unexpected of times, and how comforting that can be. It's a book about trust, and faith, and loyalty, and pride, and, just, everything. It's a book about being alive. But also about being dead.

It's a book best read outside on a gothic iron bench during a crisp day, either in May when it's not yet summer or in September when it's not yet fall. There should definitely be lots of crunchy leaves rustling around in the wind, and you should definitely have on a large oversized sweater, some tried & true jeans, and some hi-tops. Any warm caffeinated beverage would be a great accompaniment, but I think a battery acid zoom zoom juice coffee would be best (IYKYK).

Basically? It's a fantastic book and it should get moved up on your TBR as soon as possible.