A Sea of Unspoken Things (Adrienne Young)

 

A Sea of Unspoken Things 

By: Adrienne Young

Recommendation: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - (Out of 5 🌕)

Genre: Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller

Length: 288 Pages

“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame,..." Thomas Wolfe

Adrienne Young has one of the most unique, creative, and imaginative minds of any author I have ever read and she most certainly did not disappoint with 'A Sea of Unspoken Things'. 

'A Sea of Unspoken Things' is one of those books that ruins you, at least for a little while, for any other book. You know, a book that engulfs your being so much you can't think of anything else for a little while. I devoured this story in one sitting and just couldn't put it down. As with other books Young has written, I know that this book is one I will still be thinking about and referring to other readers for years to come.

Due to tragic events, James Golden left her small rural town of Six Rivers twenty years ago for the big city of San Francisco and had never planned to look back. Unfortunately, her twin brother was killed under mysterious circumstances. Local authorities are calling Johnny Golden's death an accident but James intrinsically knows something nefarious happened. James has always had this indescribable connection with her brother, she believes it stems from being twins so what is she to think when the other half of her soul dies and she starts to learn that she really didn't know him at all. The deeper she searches through Johnny's life the more she discovers things she wish she had left buried.

To compound matters, James has to overcome the events from her past, those same events that sent her running from Six Rivers. When they were teenagers, James, Johnny, and their closest friend Micah were a part of something very tragic. That tragedy cause the three to keep a very big secret from everyone for the past twenty years. A secret that drove a deep wedge between the three. Now that she has returned to her home town, she must overcome her past and the biases of the locals in order to discover what really happened to her brother. 

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

'A Sea of Unspoken Things' releases January 7, 2025. 

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One Night With You (Montgomery Ink Legacy #7) Carrie Ann Ryan

 

One Night With You (Montgomery Ink Legacy #7) 

By: Carrie Ann Ryan

Recommendation: 🌕🌕🌕🌕 - (Out of 5 🌕)

Genre: Romance

Length: 360 Pages

I couldn't contain my excitement when I learned we were getting Claire and Kingston's story. We met the pair in Carrie Ann Ryan's 'His Second Chance'. In that story, Clarie and Kingston were the friends of the main characters, Phoebe and Kane, all of whom met when encountering a bear while out on a hiking trip. At the end of that book, Claire and Phoebe had been brutally attacked. As co-owners of a security agency, Kane and Kingston had felt incredible guilt over the fact that they hadn't been able to prevent the girl's serious injury.

Claire Harlow had been stabbed numerous times. She no longer felt safe. She believed she was unable to live a normal life. Because of this, she began pushing away her close friend Kingston Montgomery. Kingston believes that Claire is pushing him away because he failed to save her, but, he refuses to let her walk away. Unbeknownst to each one another, the pair have harbored secret feelings since the day they had met. Neither wanted to act on those feelings and potentionally ruin a wonderful friendship. When the Montgomery cousins planned a weekend get away, Claire and Kingston are the only two to make it to the cabin before a snowstorm hits the pass and forces the others to turn away. With the help of lots of alcohol, the duo lose their inhibitions, and things evolve with their relationship.

Having grown up in a family with two dads and a mom, Kingston truly understands what it takes to make a relationship work through the good times and the bad. It is one of the reasons I think he fought so hard and never gave up on Claire. Claire is such a highly motivated individual. With her business she is constantly on the go; just reading about her daily schedule was exhausting to me but her perseverance is why she never gives up. The chemistry between this couple was off the charts and the scenes at the cabin were beyond steamy. I loved this perfect story for this perfect couple.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

'One Night With You releases November 18, 2024. 

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The Whispering Night (Luminaries #3) Susan Dennard

 

The Whispering Night (Luminaries #3) 

By: Susan Dennard

Recommendation: 🌕🌕🌕🌕 - (Out of 5 🌕)

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Urban Fantasy

Length: 369 Pages

Age Range: 13-18 Years of Age

**Third book in the series. Not meant as a stand alone.**

Witches, Werewolves, and Hunters oh my! What an incredible ending to an amazing series. From the very first book, Susan Dennard had me hooked with her unique story that takes place in the fantasy realm. A group of hunters who's job it is to keep monsters, known as nightmares, from infiltrating the greater society. Making matters more complicated, the Hunters must also fight against a group of witches, called Diana's, who are using their magical powers to release an evil being.

Winnie Wednesday's family had been shunned from the Luminary society for the past four years due to her father being an accused Diana. Her mom lost her job and standing in the Hunter community and Winnie lost her two best friends, Erica and Jay. But, in the past month things have turned around. After proving herself in the Hunter trials, Winnie, her mom and brother are slowly being allowed back. Having found a box of birthday cards sent from her father, Winnie is convinced the cards are filled with clues and coded messages that will help her to prove his innocence. Following her father's clues has forced Winnie to dive deep into Luminary society, uncovering a number of large secrets. With the Nightmare Masquerade, a weeks long celebration set to take place in Hemlock Falls, Winnie hopes to bring her investigation to a close. Unfortunately, the masquerade only compounds Winnie's troubles and makes matters more complicated.

As this last installment of the Luminaries came closer and closer to it's ending I kept looking for clues to a potential spin-off. I really liked Winnie who was quirky and only desired to be taken back by her old friends and accepted within the Luminary society. Winnie doesn't really have the athletic qualities one would expect a Hunter to possess but somehow she managed to make it all work. I enjoyed the world in which the story took place. Dennard developed a rather large number of original creatures each with unique features and back stories. In the end, the morale of the entire series is one that the greater world could learn from: there is one world with many different beings and creatures living in it, at the end of the day we should all learn to work together for the greater good.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

'The Whispering Night' releases November 19, 2024. 

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