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A review by dreamsngr
The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

4.0

A fun look at what it might take to produce a supernatural miracle every year.

Warning - if you listen to the audio, Stephanie's "oh wow" around chap 3 will make you want to quit. Stick with it. The wows will go away and the story will get so worth the listen.

Holly is a Scrooge. And she doesn't repent. So she dies and spends her afterlife working for the company that failed to save her. She's the new ghost of Christmas past. The Scrooge Project is a little corporate, a little theater, a little supernatural, and full of employees who have to take Disconsonian stage names. 5 years after her death the company takes on a Scrooge that's Holly's age and her ill-advised interactions with him make her start actually living.

The story is a neat twist on the often-redone classic. Not super sappy. Only a smidge teen-angsty. Well worth the time for an unusual holiday story.