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A review by embee007
The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
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? Yes
5.0
🐌"The hotel wasn’t for those who deserved it. It was for those who came."
I was so excited to see what Stiefvater's first Adult novel would look like, & I was blown away.
"June had long ago discovered that most people were bad listeners; they thought listening was synonymous with hearing. But the spoken was only half a conversation."
The main focuses of this book are the hotel, the sweetwater, our fmc, the guests (including our other 2 MCs) & hotel staff, the family who owns the hotel, & listening, more or less in that order.
"Belief was contagious. When you believed in one intangible thing, why not a second, why not a third. If God, then why not the listeners in the water, if the listeners in the water, why not ghosts, if ghosts, why not unicorns—"
I devoured this in 36 hours (& most of that time was spent binging Star Wars: Skeleton Crew 😅). Once I got hooked tho, this book was addictive, & I couldn't stop. I fell asleep reading, & woke up & started reading again immediately.
"All these years, she had thought she was content, but now she realized she had been complacent, which was not the same at all. And now that she had felt the difference, she could not remember how long it had been since she had been happy. Incandescent."
Representation: Mute child occasional narrator/MC; Black supportive characters; Minor Japanese characters
"The Avallon was in the habit of happiness."🐌
I was so excited to see what Stiefvater's first Adult novel would look like, & I was blown away.
"June had long ago discovered that most people were bad listeners; they thought listening was synonymous with hearing. But the spoken was only half a conversation."
The main focuses of this book are the hotel, the sweetwater, our fmc, the guests (including our other 2 MCs) & hotel staff, the family who owns the hotel, & listening, more or less in that order.
"Belief was contagious. When you believed in one intangible thing, why not a second, why not a third. If God, then why not the listeners in the water, if the listeners in the water, why not ghosts, if ghosts, why not unicorns—"
I devoured this in 36 hours (& most of that time was spent binging Star Wars: Skeleton Crew 😅). Once I got hooked tho, this book was addictive, & I couldn't stop. I fell asleep reading, & woke up & started reading again immediately.
"All these years, she had thought she was content, but now she realized she had been complacent, which was not the same at all. And now that she had felt the difference, she could not remember how long it had been since she had been happy. Incandescent."
Representation: Mute child occasional narrator/MC; Black supportive characters; Minor Japanese characters
"The Avallon was in the habit of happiness."🐌