Review: Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

September 12, 2012 Philippa General, Reviews 4.5 Stars, Mystery/Thriller, Paranormal, Sarah Rees Brennan, Young Adult

“You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.
“They said that about all the great visionaries.”.
“You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.”

Every now and then you come across a book that completely blows you away and this is what Unspoken was for me. It was fun, witty and incredibly entertaining, it was a breath of fresh air in amongst a heap of super serious paranormal YA books. With a witty gothic vibe this world will just blow your mind with memorable banter between the characters and a super fun storyline that I challenge anyone to find boring!

The main character Kami is just brilliant – she is witty (I’m sorry in advance for how often I’ll be using this word in my review), unstoppable and completely comfortable with being seen as a little bit crazy by the rest of the quaint small town Sorry-in-the-Vale. In fact all the characters in this book are wonderful, quirky and refreshing just making you want to find out more about them. Even the tiny characters have a real sense of completeness about them for example Kami’s younger brothers the shy and serious ten year old called, Ten and the ADD manic lemonade addicted Tomo only a few sentences of air time yet you still feel a real sense of family and insight into their personalities. Her school paper project that has brought together a completely random group of personalities and created a sense of camaraderie is also wonderful and I especially love Angela the very gorgeous yet completely lazy side kick who is dragged along (never kicking and screaming as that would be too much effort) on all of Kami’s escapades in exchange for cooked meals.

While it looks like there is going to be some major love triangle action happening in this book, romance isn’t really that large a part of the premise and what romantic tension is included is well handled and uncliche’d. Jared is wonderful, complex and your never really sure if he is just a bad guy or a flawed softy hidden under a tough guy complex. I was erring on the side of a softy until he did something that left me a bit shocked at the end of this novel. There is some great chemistry between him and Kami which is further complicated by their mental link and I really really hope that these guys overcome all obstacles and manage to get together!

The other male lead Ash is your typical knight in shining armour hero type… or is he? Again this is another well multi layered character who doesn’t stick to the standard YA cliche and I must say the date that Ash and Kami goes on had me giggling my head off – I just loved it! Jared you are a naughty naughty boy

Throughout the story you feel this ominous sense of evil with the Lynburns which is built from the get go and I wasn’t dissapointed with how things ended up but boy what a cliffhanger! I really hope book 2 comes out soon because I’m dying to find out how things resolve. This is just a wonderful wonderful book and I think there are very few readers who wouldn’t enjoy this one – the only reason it doesn’t get a 5 star rating from me is that the ending is a little sudden, I like my books with a bit more wrap up then what we got in Unspoken.

Thank you Netgalley and Random House Children’s Books for providing me with a copy of this novel for review. Unspoken has just been released on the 11th September 2012 and can be purchased via the links below.

Rating

Author	Sarah Rees Brennan
Book series	The Lynburn Legacy: Book #1
Genre	Mystery/Thriller / Paranormal / Young Adult
Publisher	Random House Children's Books
Published	September 2012
Source	Netgalley ARC
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