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Hate To Haunt You (Afterlife Incorporated Book 2)
Release Date: June 16, 2025
Genre: Sapphic Urban Fantasy
- Slow burn
- Hurt/comfort
- Ghosts
- Grim reapers
You always haunt the ones you love.
First, I got stuck as a ghost in the suburbs of Toronto. Now my reaper roommate is dying. Dying! Reapers aren’t even supposed to get the sniffles.
Turns out, we’re connected, and I don’t just mean a shared love of pineapple on pizza. Kelly and I have a rare and dangerous bond that’s draining my favourite reaper’s very essence away. If we don’t figure out how to break the link, Kelly is headed for a permanent sabbatical.
Now we’re exploring creepy corners of Afterlife, making risky deals with paranormal weirdos, and—worst of all—I might be falling for the reaper I’m literally haunting to death.
Being dead has never been easy, and there’s no way in hell I’m facing it alone. It’s time to save Kelly, even if it means breaking my own heart in the process.
Hate to Haunt You is the second instalment in the Afterlife Incorporated urban fantasy trilogy. It cannot be read as a standalone. Kelly and Ember’s romance? Still a work in progress.
My thoughts: I loved the first book in this series and was so excited to read this, I fell off my bed when I opened the email with my copy attached! Honestly, I am that clumsy.
After the crazy events of book one things have started to improve in Afterlife, and Ember is bored of all the constant meetings to discuss things. She wants to start getting things done, but none of the reapers have signed up to help.
Luckily her roommates and Kelly, her personal reaper and friend, are there to keep her spirits up, they’ve even got a new cat, that hopefully isn’t secretly a god-like being (aren’t they all, at least in their own minds?)
But something is very wrong with Kelly and it might be the connection between ghost and reaper that’s causing it. Their journey to uncover the problem and find a solution will take them to all sorts of new (to Ember, anyway) parts of Afterlife, bring them face to face with a soul-sucking ghoul, and stretch their connection to its limits. Also Ember might be falling in love with Kelly, if that’s even possible.
I really enjoyed this secret outing for Ember, Kelly and their friends, which was definitely darker than book one, but really gave the characters room to grow, for us to see more of Afterlife, and set up book three (yes!) to be even more shocking and probably make me cry. Kelly’s apathy about what’s happening to them was a bit frustrating and I felt for Ember, trying to do everything she could to save her friend, with Jupiter and X trying to help, even though as living people there were places they couldn’t go. I think after however long Kelly has been undead (I don’t know how reapers see themselves) they’re just not sure how to react anymore.
Roll on book three!!
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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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