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A review by thischarmingreader
The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee
3.0
I didn’t intend to read back-to-back YA horror novels, but here we are.
I wanted to love this one a lot more, but honestly, if it hadn’t been for listening to Natalie Naudus narrating, I probably would have DNF’d.
Isa has been called home from college to attend her father’s funeral. He was a terrible, abusive father, but her mother has promised to share the inheritance if she attends. So, she’s back in her hometown where two of her best friends killed themselves two years ago.
The fourth member of the gang of besties, Mason, seeks her out because he thinks she’s the key to communicating with their dead friends. He has his reasons and turns out, he’s right.
What we then have is a mystery about why there are so many suicides/accidental deaths among the young people of this town. Something otherworldly is going on and Isa and Mason have to figure it out and put a stop to it.
This one was a little overly complicated for my taste. And I wasn’t drawn in to the characters enough to care what happened to them. I would have given it two stars, but the narration elevated it to three.
I wanted to love this one a lot more, but honestly, if it hadn’t been for listening to Natalie Naudus narrating, I probably would have DNF’d.
Isa has been called home from college to attend her father’s funeral. He was a terrible, abusive father, but her mother has promised to share the inheritance if she attends. So, she’s back in her hometown where two of her best friends killed themselves two years ago.
The fourth member of the gang of besties, Mason, seeks her out because he thinks she’s the key to communicating with their dead friends. He has his reasons and turns out, he’s right.
What we then have is a mystery about why there are so many suicides/accidental deaths among the young people of this town. Something otherworldly is going on and Isa and Mason have to figure it out and put a stop to it.
This one was a little overly complicated for my taste. And I wasn’t drawn in to the characters enough to care what happened to them. I would have given it two stars, but the narration elevated it to three.