Language : English
Paperback : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 1837840571
ISBN-13 : 978-1837840571
Book Blurb
Winnie Wednesday’s future is looking bright. Hemlock Falls is no longer hunting the werewolf, she and Erica Thursday are tentative friends, and Winnie finally knows exactly where she stands with Jay Friday.
With everything finally on track, Winnie is looking forward to the Nightmare Masquerade. But as Luminaries from across the world flock to the small town for the week-long celebration, uninvited guests also arrive. Winnie is confronted by a masked Diana and charged with an impossible task—one that threatens everything and everyone Winnie loves.
Winnie must stop these new enemies before time runs out, but her missing father is somehow entangled with her search for hidden witches, and as Winnie digs deeper into the war between the Luminaries and the Dianas, she discovers rifts within her own family she never could have imagined. What does loyalty mean when family and enemies look the same?
My Review
I have loved reading Susan Dennard’s Luminaries trilogy, and am grateful to Daphne Press for sending me these books in return for my review. Winnie is back, but finds herself pulled in many directions, as a daughter, a friend, a girlfriend and a hunter. She has to find the truth about the Whisperer in the Forest whilst a high ranking Diana (a witch) gives Winnie a task that could destroy her family and friendships. Set against the Masquerade Ball, Winnie finds that there are alot of people living in Hemlock Falls wearing masks every day.
With the last book in a series or trilogy I am very careful about what I say as I don’t want to spoil anything in realtion to this book, or the previous books, so it will be a shortish review. What I can say is that this book is full of energy, action and surprises. Winnie, not one to seek the limelight, finds herself at the centre of the Masquerade festivities with visiting Luminaries wanting to meet the ‘wolf girl’, who survived the Werewolf, and completed the her trilas in epic style. As expected she shines through in this book where her loyalty to both family and friends are tested, and I loved seeing how Susan Dennard has developed her and other characters like Jay Friday and Erica Thursday, from the first book to the last.
As with the previous books, Susan Dennard’s plotting and storytelling is masterful. There were plenty of surprises along the way and several heart in the mouth moments that I wanted to read through fingers over my eyes. The two opening chapters were fabulous, full of mystery capturing my attention immediately and keeping it until the very last word. As with the previous book I was fascinated by the drawings of the Nightmares from the forest, they are beautifully done and show the fabulous imagnation of Susan Dennard in creating these strange creatures and how thay kill.
The Whispering Night is a stunning finale to the Luminaries Trilogy. It was everything I hoped for with it’s fast pace, action, surprises, and finally the answers to so many questions. I highly recommend this trilogy, it has everything I wanted from a Young Adult Fantasy read; a wonderful central character in Winnie, Nightmares living in the forest and a town full of secrets. I am includung a link to my review of the previous books in the trilogy below.
The Luminaries by Susan Dennard
The Hunting Moon (The Luminaries Book 2) by Susan Dennard
