I think there’s an entire scene that feels frame-for-frame a scene from the movie. The story reads so much like you’re watching You’ve Got Mail.
At that point on, Hart and Mercy write deeply intimate letters to each other creating a kinship that would have never happened in their very real lives. But then one day, Hart writes an anonymous letter and sent it out into the world with no hopes that someone would read it only to have the letter mailed to Mercy. They’ve given each other crude nicknames, refuse to work together, and just really consider each other in any sort of working relationship despite their jobs requiring them to work together. His work requires him to visit Mercy at her family’s funeral home every few weeks, but it’s not his favorite part of the job.įrom the very beginning, you can tell Hart and Mercy had it out for each other. He’s a marshal, who travels outside of their little world to defeat drudges (aka zombies) and return the lost bodies of loved ones to be buried properly. Hart is a 30-something demigod who has spent the last fifteen years traveling across the vastness of this world. However, she’s determined to keep it open despite the competition offering to pay a lot to shutter. Her father’s aging, her brother doesn’t care, and in a world where undertaking is passed on from father and son, there’s no room for Mercy to pursue this full time.
Mercy is a 30-something-year-old who’s been tirelessly working to keep her family’s funeral business afloat. And folks, it was a wild and crazy ride that I wholeheartedly loved. I had already heard a buzz about this book before I picked it up and I picked it up before the book was officially published, so I feel like that was a good sign that what I was getting into would be stellar. But can their blossoming romance survive the fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmares – each other?įind it on Amazon | Find it on My thoughts As the dangers from Tanria grow closer, so do the unlikely correspondents. If only Hart knew he’s been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most – Mercy. Much to his surprise, an anonymous letter comes back in return, and a tentative friendship is born.
She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest.Īfter yet another exasperating run-in with Mercy, Hart finds himself penning a letter addressed simply to “A Friend”. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria.
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