A review by ellieb_reads
Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

2.0

After almost 400 pages, I felt very little upon closing the book beyond gratitude that I get to start something new. The first section did hold my attention for a while, and I thought I’d enjoy the rest. Some of the prose is really beautiful, and Daverely is clearly a talented writer. But I just didn’t connect with any of the characters. Rosie and Will consistently made choices I could not understand, and neither of them are willing to talk openly about their feelings with anyone. They are totally inauthentic with people they’re supposedly close to, and I don’t know if I just have better friends, but it seemed completely unrealistic to me that you would go through life never ever ever confiding in your friends/family/husband/literally anyone. These characters needed therapy. And not in a way that made for a good and convincing story, but rather a story that was pretty monotonous and uninteresting to me.