Whisper
Whisper Trilogy, Book #1
By Dana Faletti
Author’s Website: http://www.danafaletti.com
Brought to you by OBS reviewer Valerie
Synopsis:
When Callie Evans starts suffering monster headaches and hearing mysterious voices, she wonders if her fragile teenage psyche has finally cracked. After all, being the only girl without a cell phone in a world where you only show up on the social GPS if you’re in the network is a total stressor. Throw in a fretful yet loving mother who is always up her arsenal – well, there’s only so much junk a typical teenager can handle, right?
Newsflash. Callie Evans is anything but typical. When she discovers just how unique she is, Callie’s life morphs into an endless series of surprises at every turn.
Silas and Jules feed Callie a tale she can only laugh at. Until- gasp – she discovers it’s all true. She not only has to hide her secret identity from everyone in her universe (including Joshua Pride, the super-hot new guy at school who harbors a secret of his own,) but she must learn to navigate her new reality and fulfill her revealed purpose.
In a world where whispers are the deadliest of weapons, Callie’s biggest challenge of all will be to simply survive the evil that seeks to destroy her.
Whisper is book one of the Whisper Trilogy. (Goodreads)
Review:
I’m kind of at an impasse when it comes to this book. On one hand, I think that it’s a fabulous novel with great potential. On the other hand, I think that it was very cheesy and predictable and staged.
Cheesy first.
There’s only so much cheese I can deal with before my brain just stops comprehending. I almost reached the overload moment, but I fortunately did not. Yes, Callie Evans may be a freshman. Yes, she may want a boyfriend. She may feel awkward at times, but she does not fall into insta-love and think that Joshua Pride is her future husband.
She shouldn’t, anyways.
And the plot overall was a tad cheesy.
Fabulous now.
I love the idea of the novel. It’s just so nice and cute and marvelous. Whisper is one of the novels that you can count on to make you smile. When you read even a sentence, you kind of want to smile. It’s just that smile- inducing. I love the niceness of it all.
I’m really glad the author Dana Faletti made Callie a freshman. So many novels are about juniors or seniors, and I really feel freshmen get left out. I’m so upset whenever that happens. Life is just uncool like that until this book came into my life.
So here we have WHISPER. And it comes into your life with a YELL. (Sorry, I absolutely suck at good puns…)
