Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew

40 reviews

caterpillarkat's review against another edition

DNF at 59%. I didn’t really care about the characters at all and I kept having to drag myself back to the book to read more. Huge bummer because I was really excited about a Deaf MC in a dark academia setting. Bright side: if you play a drinking game for every time the phrase “little glass Delaney” comes up in chapter 1 alone, you’ll be too sloshed to care.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, and Death

bibliomania_express's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Toxic relationship, Dementia, and Car accident

habitualrereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

3.5

This was an interesting story! I wish more information had been given throughout, though. I was lost for most of the book and some stuff was not satisfactorily explained. I may like it more on second read-through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Grief and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content

sylvestra's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Ableism and Dementia

takarakei's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book will keep you on questioning everything until the end it's super mysterious. You're gonna be like "wtf is going on" for 80% of the book, but in the best way possible.

THE ROMANCE. 
What are these YA Fantasy Romance authors doing to me???? I have *feelings* How do they keep everything so PG but I am sweating?! IT'S SO GOOD.

Protect Colton at all costs. That is all.

If you're a fan of: Belladonna by Adalyn Grace (new adult) or Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (NOT YA) I think you'll really enjoy this.

IDK where to even put the spice cause it's completely 'closed door' if anything even really happens it's vague in the most beautiful way. So 1.5-2/5 🌶️??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, and Alcohol

stardustandrockets's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

skylar_cr_wolf's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

“Death is part of life. Nothing is permanent. Nothing stays. Everything comes to an end, that’s just the way it goes.”

This is something you would believe. Even Delaney believed it for a while. A long while. But does life really stop with death?

While you follow her on her journey to unravel not just the truth by finding an answer to this particular question maybe, you’re also meeting Colton, someone who will keep secrets till his last breath. Or in this case simply even to the end.
And honestly, I like this. They both evolve throughout the story but Colton still remains with secrets of his own.

He is  also not your average dark, mysterious guy with a sweet spot for the female main protagonist. No. He is literally a dead person with questionable morals, maybe even only a shadow of himself at the end. Colton isn’t becoming morally grey. His morals have always been a little off because the laws of life do not necessarily apply to him anymore.

I must say, I think I like this about him. Or about this story in general. You will get answers to questions and yet you won’t be able to solve all of the secrets.
I am surprised how quickly I read this, to be honest. Usually I need more than a week to read ~400 pages but this one really had me in a grip there. I can’t pinpoint why it did not turn out to be 5 stars or more than solid 4. But maybe this is just another question which I cannot answer and won’t possibly. Which is fine. I liked the book a lot nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Violence, Dementia, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

readingelli's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Description of decomposition

ositothatreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death