The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew is suspense packed novel full of loss and loneliness based in the modern world. College student Delaney Meyers-Petrov is deaf with very little experience in the real world. She enrolls in college hoping for a fresh start. She finds not only that but many other things ranging from romance to new friends to unlocking a part of herself she never knew existed. Colton Price is a assistant for Delaney’s professors with many dark secrets and a past that haunts him. He has friends in high places and a force to be reckoned with.
This book is written very well with strong characters that are interesting. You want to follow them throughout the book so you know what happens next in their own personal storybooks. There is plenty of suspense and cliffhangers throughout the book that also lead the reader on and draw them in to the story. All of the important main characters have something in their past that haunts them and keeps them going, they all have end goals. There are many twists and turns in the plot that add to the intensity of the story. Right when something that appears to be predictable is about to happen the author makes a complete 180° turn in the other direction with the story.
This book, while good is also very stereotypical at times. Two people who are forbidden from speaking to one another speak. Two people who are forbidden to love one another fall in love. The good guy isn’t always as good as he appears to be. And sometimes things are best left the way they are.
The book is a fantasy novel loaded with magical realism. The people who would enjoy this book are the people who like books filled with suspense and action. People who are ok with an ending that maybe they didn’t believe possible. The Whispering Dark is not a lighthearted book and can be very intense. It is not a book for someone who is looking for a happy story about two people who fall in love and ride off into the sunset together.