Ok here's a list some of my fave quotes (doesn't even cover half of them but this is already getting so long): 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. 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

This is a tale full of mystery and murder, perfect for both Dark Academia fans and those who enjoy supernatural spookiness! Romantic and horror-filled, with tension and twists at every turn, The Whispering Dark follows Delaney Meyers-Petrov as she navigates Godbole University, a school that seems to contain more secrets than students. Having been accepted into a prestigious program where students are taught to slip between parallel worlds, Delaney soon finds herself hearing voices in the shadows and facing entities that lurk in the dark. He was an idiot. This shouldn’t have come as a surprise. He’d known she’d be here today. Lane. His Lane. In his school. In his personal space. In his immediate orbit. He’d been briefed of her imminent arrival well in advance. Warned, really.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 pacing might not be smooth but the poetic writing of the ambiguity surrounding Delaney’s (dis)ability is what pulled me in. I don’t want to say too much without spoiling but I love how her ✨deafness✨ played a role in the supernatural. I, a deaf person, LOVE the 🦻🏽DEAF REP🧏‍♀️!! The book isn’t nowhere near perfect but the deaf author did phenomenal as an indie author!!!!

The pacing was super slow. There was nothing exciting, and I just wish it was different because this story had SO MUCH POTENTIAL! Nothing remotely interesting happened until the last 10% or so. The beginning was very strong and hooked me, so I was ready for a wild ride, but ultimately the whole plot is a mess. The author was trying to mix a lot of very different and interesting concepts, and it just didn’t work. Can the mc talk to the dead or the dark? They travel between worlds, but how? How did it come about? What is this institute that they go to study and how are you chosen except that you’ve had a near death experience? Colton Price, who had always seemed so cold. Colton Price, who reminded her of something seraphic. Mars, god of war, resplendent and undying. Indomitable, impossible Colton". He knew Price would know. The boy was a walking encyclopedia. unforgivably smug in the understanding that he was, more often than not, the smartest person in the room. "I have not failed ten thousand times," he said, speaking over the muffled clash of swords, "Tve successfully found ten thousand ways that won't work.” 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!! 😭🙏 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

My one complaint would be that I wanted some more lore and academia-type studies. It’s glossed over for the most part, but I did enjoy the pieces we got. This book is definitely a Hades and Persephone retelling in disguise. I honestly don’t have the words to describe my love for this book. I was near tears at the end. 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. A paranormal thriller laced with twists and revelations that will stop your heart' Aiden Thomas, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CEMETERY BOYS 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 This must be the most boring book I've ever read in my life. NOTHING IS HAPPENING. Every scene is just the MC and her bland ass, rude ass love interest chatting about nothing. And why is this grown ass man obsessed with this girl he met when she was A CHILD?! I do not stan. In fact, I hate. I'm a hater.

After a fellow student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit hole of deeply buried university secrets. They soon find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy that threatens to tear them - and their forbidden partnership - apart.

His name slipped out of her like a supplication. He wanted to tell her he was the last person to the bear the weight of benediction". I SCREAMEDDDDD The video looked like something out of The Twilight Zone. One instant, the student stood perfectly still and stared behind the camera, waiting for a cue. Then, with a nod, he took a single step. The sky swallowed him up. The air rippled like water in his wake. He didn’t reappear. Another thing I didn’t like about the writing was the passage of time. Long stretches of time would pass from one paragraph to the next (for example: it would go from dawn to afternoon in 1 paragraph), and a lot of the time it was only mentioned a couple of paragraphs later, so I’d be reading it all confused like “I *think* it’s a new day????? Idk??????”. This, in addition to the “missing scenes” and unclear goal of the story, left me very confused. 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 he...