The Unmaking of June Farrow A Novel

love love love!

Bewertung am 10.01.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2383220
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

What is time? What is reality? Adrienne Young played with these questions and created an amazingly thought-through story with an intricate plot. This book blends mystery and magic, love and loyality, and therefore builds a suspensful atmosphere accompanied by beautiful writing. A new all-time favourite with complex characters and a lot of secrets!

Wonderful time-travel novel

Mar aus - am 27.12.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2372741
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

After reading a book like The Unmaking of June Farrow, you'll reconsider all your previous reviews and wonder if you should deduct a star from most of them just to give this one its full credit. Alternatively, consider this book a 6/5 star contender :) Where to begin... this is a time-travel story around our main character June who finds out that there is more behind the absence of her mother and the strange mental "sickness" that all Farrow women seem to fall prey to. June is a very thoughtful mid-thirty woman who has accepted her fate and goal to never marry and have children in order to break the curse of the Farrows. We are slowly introduced to her world and feelings - the small town atmosphere of North Carolina of 2023 and her growing confusion after recognising the very same signs of hallucinations that the women of her family have shown before her. From there on, we uncover every piece together with her and it's just as mind-boggling for us, the reader, as it is to her. The whole story is beautifully written: from the rural location and their quiet and secretive people over to the slow building of the story and second chance to love, everything matches. The only teeny tiny bit that I would change is spreading the ending onto more pages - just to enjoy the story for a bit longer.