The Whispering Dark: The bewitching academic rivals to lovers slow burn debut fantasy

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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. Her breath caught. Leaning in close, he pressed a kiss to the pulse beneath her ear. Her body arched instantly into his, like they were strung all together. Twin marionettes, their strings hopelessly twisted. There aren’t words able to do justice to this breathtaking story. The Whispering Dark is one of those books that simultaneously creeps up on you and nettles its way under your skin and hooks you from the very beginning. 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. Colton’s thoughts spun out, scrambling for something intelligent to say. Falling woefully short, he landed only on, “You’re late.”

Let’s start with what I loved- the writing OHMYGOD IT WAS GORGEOUS, and also the only thing that kept me going. The concept sounded so good and I loved the vibes, but it just wasn’t enough. The book itself is written beautifully. Andrew has her descriptions nailed down pat; she is wonderful at crafting worlds and getting readers to see, smell, and taste what she does. There were so many lines where I read them and was like "oh yeah, this is going to be in an edit for this book". I love some poetic prose, and The Whispering Dark often had that. The seventh floor of Godbole was as flat and as open as the first. The tile was lacquered to a sheen. The white dais at the room’s crux supported a wide urn of some dripping floral arrangement. He gave in and tugged at his tie. so i read her book carefully-- through the lens of "will this harm hijabis? will this harm muslims and give them a bad rep? will someone who reads this get a bad opinion of muslims and ultimately lead to an increase in harmful stereotypes being seen as the norm as we have seen time and time again in books and media when muslims are shown?" I know there are those who view trigger warnings as spoilers, so if that's you, I advise you to scroll no further)

Good lord where do I begin. None of the characters had any depth, the MC especially. She was like a paper cut out of a person, who did absolutely ~nothing~ but dress differently, and yet somehow could effortlessly walk through worlds and became the cHoSeN oNe for some sort of demon/monster thing (was never really clarified what it was.) That was why, the minute she was of age, she’d gone online and registered for the placement scholarship. The applicant exam was an intensive labor, spanning the course of a week. It assessed mental and physical health, personal aptitudes, and, the forms ominously noted, etcetera. Her results, once factored, would determine her placement in a field that most closely matched her individual skill set. In a world where everyone has a magical ability based on the moon’s phase on their day of birth, magical education is reserved for those with exceptional talent.

He couldn’t help it. He went where she led, like a paper kite on a string. He was hopelessly caught, twisted in her branches. His line tangled. His spine splintered. His sail all in tatters. There was no clean way to work himself free.” How do I even begin to write this review? My thoughts are an incoherent mess. This book was a masterpiece. It was written so well, I cannot believe that this is a debut. I wanted to highlight every single paragraph because it was just so beautiful. Every single word landed like a punch and I am a masochist. It was dark, creepy, and atmospheric and I loved every minute of it. In front of them, the doors rumbled open to reveal a familiar face. A lump solidified in Colton’s throat as Eric Hayes pushed over the threshold, ramming his substantial height into the already small space. The look he shot Colton’s way made him feel as if he’d been caught with his hands down his pants, and a hot well of resentment rose in his chest.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

He means you,” Hayes put in. He was still sporting his trademark easy grin, though there was something steeled off in his gaze. A warning. A reminder. There’d been one singular expectation set in place at the start of this year: Don’t make friends with the Meyers-Petrov girl. He knew it. Hayes knew it. An unconventional and deep story on love, loneliness, overcoming handicaps to excell in life, love and finding a purpose with deep meaning. A bit creepy and atmospheric (for young adults mostly, though).ok wow this book!! I'm gonna try to keep this coherent but I also love this book so much there's not a chance thats gonna happen,, here goes:

I’m Lane,” she said. She spoke to Hayes, but she looked at him. It felt as though she was daring him to say it again. that being said, the book is a fantasy and while i looked at it from an "x-men world view where some people have powers", there will be readers out there, muslim readers, who won't agree with how adya's powers were written. and that is 100% their right to have that opinion. i read it as a story based on strange science that allows for universe hopping. Now for the bad…… Oh boy. 😬 Most of my problems with this book can be boiled down to this: the writing is utterly terrible. Not in an obvious way (you can’t really grab a random quote to show how poorly written this book was); more in a structural sense: poor world building, underdeveloped relationships, no explanations, missing scenes… Reading this left me confused and incredibly frustrated. I have NEVER read a book that’s in such desperate need of an editor!NINTH HOUSE meets THE ATLAS SIX in the enemies-to-lovers dark academia debut everyone's talking about . . . Delaney, otherwise known as Lane, is a fantastic protagonist. Used to being overlooked because of her disability, she’s inquisitive, determined, and desperate to prove herself. She’s also haunted by voices in the shadows, terrified of the dark, and paralyzed by impostor syndrome in an environment where she isn’t quite sure she belongs. Lane draws the reader’s empathy immediately, carrying the novel through sections of mystery where it’s unclear what everything means. in the end, i am one muslim with one interpretation. there are 1.4 billion of us. we will all read this story through different eyes. i hope it doesn't make any of us wrong. this is up to interpretation.