So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove he. Though diversity in fiction has come a long way in the last few years, it still feels refreshing to read about a central character who doesn’t let their disability hold them back. Like Delaney, Andrew lost her hearing as a child, and she describes it as "a sudden and very isolating experience.

As the proctor rattled off rules she couldn’t hear, she’d busied herself with setting her pencils into a neatly sharpened line and done her best not to stare into the gymnasium’s murky corners. Andrew’s writing is so fluid and so beautifully vivid…the way she personifies and describes the dark. Having been accepted into a prestigious program where students are taught to slip between parallel worlds, Delaney soon finds herself hearing voices in the shadows and facing entities that lurk in the dark. And I saw several other readers mention that the plot doesn’t really kick in until the last third of the book, and I really don’t want to wander even more through this story without a purpose, hence the DNF.Lane,” they’d said, “ if it’s a degree you want, there are plenty of online programs with manageable tuitions. I do think this is a me problem though, so I encourage everyone to pick up this book and see what they think re: the two main characters. I think this romanticising of an abusive, controlling and manipulative relationship is unacceptable in 2022 and is really dangerous for a young adult audience in particular. An imposing glass monolith, it sparked like a diamond in the light, a structural incongruity among the neat rows of ivy-clad brick. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself.

Nothing was explained and it felt like full scenes were simply absent, which made for an awful reading experience.Brittle of bone and prone to catching cold, she’d cut her teeth on the edge of death well before she could read. The atmosphere in this book, lemme try to properly explain: comfort, warm, spooky, feels like coming home, but home is a lil deserted and kinda creepy and there's a weird draft coming through an ajar door, this book feels like the warmest hug, wrapped in autumnal goodness, hot drinks and gloves, boots and crunchy leaves, but also frosty night air, can't feel your toes in the snow, eyes watering from the wind, and you keep looking left and right because the shadows look weird.

Then at the climax of the book, Colton has a “Plan B” to get rid of whatever is possessing Lane, but his plan B was to… take her out on a date in an alternate universe?She’d huddled by the mailbox, fingers numb, and torn into the seal of the Grants and Scholarships Committee, all hard wax and insignia. The needs-based fellowship came with a single caveat: They’d pay her tuition in full, so long as she agreed to go wherever she was placed. She’d been tugged along after the shadows, like a fly lured to the glittering orb of a silk-spun web.