Summary:
"Kami Glass loves someone she's never met...a boy she's talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn't silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn't suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.
But all that changes when the Lynburns return.
The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not the only one to shy away from the unknown--in fact, she's determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?
Sarah Rees Brennan brings Gothic romance kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century with a heroine who can take care of herself, a boy who needs to be saved, and the magical forces that bring them together and tear them apart."
My Thoughts:
Okay, so I had been hearing about this book for months from people on Twitter and based on the buzz and the people discussing the amazing cliffhanger ending, I had to pick it up. And...I wasn't disappointed.
The concept of having an imaginary friend who doesn't go away and you talk to all the time, only to one day discover that that person is actually properly real is pretty awesome. The tangled web of the relationships between all the characters was fascinating and I was drawn into the world completely. With the arrival of the Lynburns and their mysterious actions, I admit that I was really curious as to what they were and that made it to where I didn't want to stop reading.
Kami and Jared and Ash and the whole twisted plot was wonderful. Having a Gothic style romance that is actually set in modern times was great, especially as I have enjoyed reading books such as Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Northanger Abbey, and The Mysteries of Udolpho.
While I don't necessarily agree with the multitudes of people saying that it was an incredibly shocking cliffhanger ending, I do agree that it is enough of a cliffhanger to make the wait for the next book feel like it is far too long. Oh, and I'll just say that I saw the book cover for the paperback version, and I don't know exactly but I may like it better than the hardcover. It seems to fit in more with the cover for the second book.
So yeah, this book was definitely a 5/5 for me and I look forward to reading more by Sarah Rees Brennan.
Unspoken at Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unspoken-sarah-rees-brennan/1112860089?ean=9780375870415
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