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seraphjewel 's review for:
A Sea of Unspoken Things
by Adrienne Young
For me, this author's strength has always been atmosphere. She writes in such a way that really lets me sink into a time and place. I don't mind the slow pace of her stories because it always feels like the journey is the whole point. This was similar, but I feel like it added some unnecessary things to the mix.
I honestly thought I was going to love this. The main character is working through her relationship and past with her now deceased twin brother. There's so much complexity of emotion that the author could have explored here. And certainly it was there, but there was also all this mess with past girlfriends and friends and a murder mystery. That last part in particular didn't feel necessary at all. It was enough for the main character to be working through her grief.
I could tell that a lot of this was the author channeling herself and her own twin through the story, but I really wish she picked a different first name for the main character. Why wasn't she called Jamie? That is a perfectly acceptable name for both a boy and a girl, and it would be way less confusing on the reader. I'm not sure it added much to the story, since all the characters treated it like it was perfectly normal. There wasn't even an attempt for any of them to call her Jamie as a nickname!
The whole thing with Ben and Autumn was really confusing, too. I'll probably have to read it again, because the text made it feel really uncomfortable for me. The book being so short, the different characters, their relationships with each other, and their arcs in the story were probably not as fleshed out as they could have been.
The book was perfectly fine, but I wish it would have just been about the main character working through the loss of her twin brother.
I honestly thought I was going to love this. The main character is working through her relationship and past with her now deceased twin brother. There's so much complexity of emotion that the author could have explored here. And certainly it was there, but there was also all this mess with past girlfriends and friends and a murder mystery. That last part in particular didn't feel necessary at all. It was enough for the main character to be working through her grief.
I could tell that a lot of this was the author channeling herself and her own twin through the story, but I really wish she picked a different first name for the main character. Why wasn't she called Jamie? That is a perfectly acceptable name for both a boy and a girl, and it would be way less confusing on the reader. I'm not sure it added much to the story, since all the characters treated it like it was perfectly normal. There wasn't even an attempt for any of them to call her Jamie as a nickname!
The whole thing with Ben and Autumn was really confusing, too. I'll probably have to read it again, because the text made it feel really uncomfortable for me. The book being so short, the different characters, their relationships with each other, and their arcs in the story were probably not as fleshed out as they could have been.
The book was perfectly fine, but I wish it would have just been about the main character working through the loss of her twin brother.