{"id":105,"date":"2024-04-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:48:25","slug":"the-whispering-dark-by-kelly-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/the-whispering-dark-by-kelly-andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Delaney is a deaf teenager, desperate to prove to the world that she isn&#8217;t fragile. Colton is a handsome professor&#8217;s assistant with a dark and deadly secret. Their childhoods are entwined with their death and stunning return to life. Delaney is admitted into a special, supernatural program at Godbole University where she learns to step into parallel worlds. When she stumbles into the mysterious death of a student, she becomes determined to get answers. The questions lead to Colton. Despite his earnest efforts to turn Delaney away, he finds her irresistible. They run full speed toward a messy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I appreciate the treatment of Delaney&#8217;s deafness. While it was an intricate part of the story, it feels genuine. The book is well-paced, but it stutters occasionally when the author is revealing their death experiences. Relationships with characters outside of Colton and Delaney are not developed so it doesn&#8217;t make sense when they get involved. It&#8217;s clear something dark is going on, and the revelations are controlled bursts of recurring chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a standalone book, which is good because I probably would not have read a sequel. Despite the weaknesses, I did like the overall story. I recommend it to readers that enjoy atmospheric fantasies like Belladonna and The Luminaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaney is a deaf teenager, desperate to prove to the world that she isn&#8217;t fragile. Colton is a handsome professor&#8217;s assistant with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TheWhisperingDark.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guinnreads.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}