This was my first Brennan, but it most definitely won't be my last. A promising start to begin a new trilogy, I finished this impressed and anxious for more. It can be creepy, genuinely funny, and completely real - all often on the same page.

The first in a new Gothic and paranormal series, despite a few flaws and missteps, the premier novel in the Lynburn Legacy sets a high bar for any of the other novels to live up to. The first novel I've ever read from Irish young-adult author Sarah Rees Brennan, it left me eager for more and unwilling to close the cover. Even when Unspoken does veer into well-tread territory for YA, it ends up being the exception to the rule. It's a breath of fresh air in a genre that tends to stick to the same ideas and themes and plots. Unspoken is unique, it's fun, it's populated with amazingly real, fleshed out characters operating with a strong plot about magic, and secrets, and history. If that isn't a clear enough picture of how thoroughlyĮntertaining and engrossing this gem of a book is, I don't know what to The morning to finish it, on a night where I had to get up at 4 the next It's Gothic and sassy and funny and clever and thisclose She thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously The key to it all just might be the boy in her head. Known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets-and a Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left Overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. There has been screaming in the woods and the manor Her life seems to be in order, until disturbing events begin Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she has learned ways to turn that to herĪdvantage. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of With someone she’s never met-a boy she’s talked to in her head since she Genre: young-adult, supernatural, mystery, Gothic

Unspoken series by sarah rees brennan