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Delaney’s relationship with the LI, Colton, was also very strange. We learn that they met when they were younger, and now, in present day, they have this inexplicable attraction to each other. They’re constantly thinking about each other – they’re obsessed! The author claims this book is a slow-burn, but their instant connection and the fact that they’re immediately drawn to each other begs to differ. Sure, there’s a chance it’ll be revealed later in the book that they were prophesied to get close or whatever, and that’s why they felt this attraction; and perhaps it takes them a while to *actually* get together. However, you can’t really say it’s a slow-burn when in the first 20% she’s already ~ feeling something in her b This is pitched as "Ninth House" meets "The Raven Boys" meets "The Atlas Six". Let me tell you how true that is. I've read all of them and I can CONFIRM. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅𝒕 There aren’t words able to do justice to this breathtaking story. The Whispering Dark is one of those books that simultaneously creeps up on you and nettles its way under your skin and hooks you from the very beginning. The question tore through him. Lane was his. She'd alwas been his. And he was hers. They were painted the same shades. Threaded with the same lines. He'd spent his whole life drawn to her, and she to him.” Her breath caught. Leaning in close, he pressed a kiss to the pulse beneath her ear. Her body arched instantly into his, like they were strung all together. Twin marionettes, their strings hopelessly twisted.
The intense and turbulent romance at the heart of the story is all consuming, which does mean that the paranormal aspect suffers slightly. There’s little explanation into Godbole and its unusual curriculum. Students jump between parallel universes and perform mystical practices like divination, but the history and lore of the book’s world remains hazy. Part of this is due to the mystery that propels the story; revealing too much too soon unravels the secrets that bind these characters. And whilst some of the twists aren’t as easily disguised as they’re meant to be, the dark thrill of this book is in gathering the different pieces of the puzzle and slotting it all together – particularly the bone-deep connection between Lane and Colton, which is the novel’s driving force. In that respect, this is very much a romance first, fantasy second kind of book. Long sigh of...this book is why I'm falling out of love with YA. Not this book specifically, but this book as a representation of a writing trend that is becoming increasingly prominent within YA fantasy.A very well written piece of supernatural thriller about people with the ability to walk between parallel earths. Writing: As I said, it was beautiful, but it was also not great at a lot of points, when the scenes shifted. One second we were being told she’s in her room and literally the next sentence is her having a conversation with someone in her class. In that aspect I think this book needed an editor, or maybe the final form of this book might be different as I read it as an e-arc? I don’t know. He couldn’t help it. He went where she led, like a paper kite on a string. He was hopelessly caught, twisted in her branches. His line tangled. His spine splintered. His sail all in tatters. There was no clean way to work himself free.”
The Whispering Dark markets itself as a mix of The Raven Cycle and Ninth House, and I think that this is a perfect way to describe the essence of it.The kiss was a surprise, immediate and immolating. There was nothing sweet about it. Nothing soft. Only the clash of mouths, the scrap of teeth. They collided the way they always did. Like they were going to war". THE WHISPERING DARK will burrow into your bones and nestle deep, refusing to let go. Kelly Andrew’s prose is aching and lyrical, the mark of a master in the making. This is a story I won’t soon forget‘ Hafsah Faizal, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of WE HUNT THE FLAME AGHFJSDKDJK I JUST GOT AN ARC OF THIS BOOK OMFG????????????? IT’S MY MOST ANTICIPATED DEBUT OF 2022 I’M SO EXCITED I CAN’T BELIEVE I GOT AN ARC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHSADJKFDVSHJ!!!! It’s my 2nd ever ARC, too!!! Idk what I did to deserve this, but I’d like to thank the Edelweiss and Scholastic gods for this!! 😭🙏 NINTH HOUSE meets THE ATLAS SIX in the enemies-to-lovers dark academia debut everyone's talking about . . . The book follows Delaney Meyers-Petrov, a girl who has been accepted into a prestigious school that teaches its students to walk between worlds. Delaney, or Lane, is deaf, and so her inner struggles are not the same as the ones from fully abled people. This is OwnVoices disability rep, and I am so glad that Andrew is finally able to have a book that represents her, even if that book is her own. I am always so happy when OwnVoices books enter the market, as everyone deserves to see themselves in a character.
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