The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

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Thank you, NetGalley, Little, Brown Book Group UK, and Orbit Books, for the eARC. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book. The loathing is real. The loneliness is real. The way these two open up to each other anonymously through letters and fall for each other is SO REAL! With all these palpable feelings all around, this book is an easy read even if you don’t understand WTF is actually happening. Old gods, appendixes, demigods, keys, salt sea, mists!? It took a long time for me to get my bearings on what the actual hell this world was, but Mercy and Hart(!OMG THIS DEMIGOD MAN!) are such interesting characters with so much chemistry, I didn’t care. And when they fall for each other I melted and swooned and cheered and sighed. The heart of this story is romance, and THAT I could definitely follow.

If only Hart knew he's been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most - Mercy. As the dangers from Tanria grow closer, so do the unlikely correspondents. But can their blossoming romance survive the fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmares - each other?The drudges are just bodies possessed by lost souls. Once possessed, the bodies essentially turn into zombies.

The book isn’t overly spicy, but it does have a few parts that might make your cheeks flush. It’s a slow burn, so don’t expect any real romance until halfway through. But trust me — it’s totally worth the wait. Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the magical wilds of Tanria. It’s an unforgiving job, and he’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Set in a world full of magic and demigods, donuts and small-town drama, this enchantingly quirky, utterly unique fantasy is perfect for fans of The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Invisible Library. I showed up for the fantastic, fun fantasy setting but it was Hart and Mercy that kept me reading.” —Ruby DixonBut Hart is wrong: Mercy is trying to run an ethical, stable business that doesn’t price gouge, and hand crafts each funerary boat, unlike a rival business that indeed buys wholesale and sells egregious markups. Yet that doesn’t diminish the spark of the epistolary romance. Neither the letters nor the book itself shy away from the matter of death, ably situating conversations about our inevitable ends alongside these epistolary beginnings of friendship and love. As Undertaking reveals, making yourself vulnerable to love (but also to rejection) lives alongside being open to the possibility of loss that death brings—loss of life in the worst case, of course, but also loss of control, loss of a future you let yourself hope for by twining your life with someone else’s. I’m sorry,” he sobbed. “I don’t want to hear ‘I’m sorry, Mercy’ or ‘I don’t deserve you, Mercy’ or ‘I hope you find someone else, Mercy’! I want to hear ‘I love you, Mercy’!” The beauty of the romance genre can be found in its timeless narratives—countless stories that successfully manage to tug at our heartstrings (and sometimes run our emotions through the wringer) because of their promise of an ultimate happy resolution, even if the journey to the end never takes the same path twice. Thrust any combination of tropes, plot elements, and character types into the hands of ten different authors, and the journey to true love across the resulting books will be delightfully varied. Mercy is single-handedly keeping the doors of Birdsall & Son open by filling in the role of office manager, undertaker and much more. The fact that Hart always pops up when Mercy is at her wit’s end. But over the course of the book, with the help of some mysterious letters and some “ah-ha” moments, the two realize that it isn’t hate that they are feeling towards each other. But can their tentative relationship survive not only the truth about the letters but the supernatural threats looming on the horizon?



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