The Whispering Dark
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Average rating2.7
"A haunting, dreamlike tale of sacrifice, love, and obsession." -- Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author. 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.
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DNF because at one third this book is still unreadable, has no plot, nor a single fleshed-out character and the world building is so nonexistent that I have no clue whether magic is commonplace or not.
Reading a few spoilery reviews tells me I'm not missing anything, so a very rare DNF it is.
As a non english speaker some of the descriptions in this book were so out of my vocabulary that I just decided to vibe with them and the sound they made.
And that's what I usually do, I won't lie. But all of those descriptions sounded so beautiful, I actually didn't care that I didn't know the meaning of all those words.
(My next mission is to reread this someday on a kindle so I can search for their meanings 🙈)
I, I just don't know what to say. This book was so beautiful it destroyed me in the best way possible. And I think thats the word for it if I had to describe it: beautiful... and dark. But that combo was just what I needed and what I didn't know I was craving for.
I am one to love books that keep me in the dark. Books that don't explain everything right away. I love playing detective and plotting possibilities and then discovering the truth. I love feeling so lost at the start of a story that I have the need to keep reading
I guess that's not what most people like, but if you do? Give this book a chance.
Also, Lane and Colton have a special place in my heart from now on. Their relationship was so special and different and ugh, I just love them. That's it.
Ik heb vaak gedanst rond het idee om dit boek niet uit te lezen, maar iets bleef me ervan weerhouden. Uiteindelijk heb ik doorgezet, zij het door de laatste 30% zo goed als diagonaal te lezen.
Het begin van dit verhaal voelde alsof ik het boek in hoofdstuk twee was begonnen, nadat ik zowel de proloog als hoofdstuk 1 had overgeslagen. Dit gevoel van het missen van een essentieel stuk informatie, dat duidelijk was beschreven in die overgeslagen delen en daarom niet herhaald hoefde te worden, bleef gedurende een groot deel van dit boek bestaan.
De andere delen waren een mix tussen een zeer verwarrende koortsdroom en het me doorheen de beschrijving van het begin van een rare onevenwichtige relatie tussen twee kartonnen personages te moeten sleuren.
Uiterst langzaam werden dan toch enkele verwarrende dingen onthuld, maar dat gevoel dat ik iets miste bleef wel aanhouden.
Het tempo van dit hele verhaal was ook inconsequent. Elke keer dat ik dacht dat we in de flow kwamen, kwam het tempo krijsend tot stilstand, om weer over te gaan tot een zeer verwarrend en uiterst overschreven verhaal.
Al met al had dit boek wel de botten van een mogelijks interessant verhaal, maar miste het al zijn spieren en pezen, waardoor we met een verwarrend hoopje vlees en vet achter bleven.
