Grim Tidings
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Before we talk about the book at all: on a scale of blanket to weighted blanket, how comforted did this one leave you feeling?
A Grim Reaper and a Guardian Angel walk into an alliance. What was the first moment in their dynamic that made you smile or laugh out loud?
This book gives us a reaper who does not want to cause harm. How did it feel to be asked to care about Death as a soft, tired, well-meaning person?
Guardian Angels exist to keep people safe. Who has played that role in your own life, quietly and without much credit?
The whole story lives in the space between ending things and protecting things. Which of those two instincts feels more like you on an ordinary Tuesday?
Borison writes comfort into the middle of a dark premise. Where did you feel the warmth strongest: the humor, the small kindnesses, or the way the characters kept showing up for each other?
Both leads are stuck inside roles they were handed rather than chose. Without giving away where they land, when did you feel most tender toward one of them for trying to be good inside a job that does not reward it?
If you could have handed one of these two a mug of something hot and said one sentence to them, at what point in the story would you have done it, and what would you have said?