Name: Sophia 's review of The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew
Item: The Whispering Dark
Rating: 2.5
Author: Sophia

Kelly Andrew

The Raven Boys meets Ninth House in the most exciting debut of 2022 -- a dark, atmospheric fantasy about a Deaf college student with a peculiar connection to the afterlife. Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents. Colton Price died when he was nine years old. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl... and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows. Delaney wants to keep her distance from Colton -- she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming -- yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them -- and their forbidden partnership -- apart.

The Whispering Dark

Sophia 

She took a breath and she took a step. And the shadows followed.

Elena M.

She felt, as she often did in crowded spaces, trapped along the periphery. One foot in the waking world with everyone else, the other somewhere quiet. Somewhere strange. Somewhere limitless and lonely. Without context to act as an anchor, sound flitted between her ears like dandelion fluff.

She’d been handled with white gloves all her life, kept high on a shelf, and it wouldn’t do to sit up there forever, collecting dust. Glass, she’d learned, was terribly easy to crack, but the pressure it could weather was immense. She wanted to parse out her limits, even if doing so earned her a few nicks. She wanted the chance to melt herself down and shape herself into something new.

She wanted to be defined. Not by the silence between her ears or her fear of the dark, but by the sum of her achievements. Not by what she couldn’t do, but by what she could.

Lexi Gotham

Weird weird weird weird weird book. I kept reading and hoping that the plot would become clearer. I should’ve just DNF. I was not a fan. 

Giving this a 2.5 because it wasn’t BAD I just don’t think it was for me. I enjoyed the premise of the book and was convinced this was going to be an absolute favourite however, it kind of fell flat for me. I felt like there was a really strong idea of what this book wanted to be but the execution landed on too much beautiful writing and not enough substance with too much vagueness? Points for beautifully descriptive writing tho! I did really enjoy the setting and the vibe, the characters were really interesting and I really liked them independently and the flashbacks were super cool. I wish there was more of an explanation to what happened in the book and there was a lot of the time that I spent confused about what was going on, waiting for things to be explained. 

I do recommend this though for anybody who liked Ninth House and that dark academia, school paranormal vibe bc this is exactly that!!

I have a feeling it is the type of book that gets even better when re-read.

This book was very mid and I had higher hopes for it. The author really doubled down on over-used tropes for one, and two the reader can easily guess the two big plot twists literally miles before the FMC. Also it felt like the author thought keeping the reader in the dark about literally everything and guessing at every turn was a plot device? But that’s just poor writing henny. The world and concepts were interesting, I just don’t think it was fleshed out very well. 

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