Whispers and the Roars

** spoiler alert ** \”This book is best enjoyed when you don\’t know what is going to happen.\” Says the author. \”LIES!\” Says me Seriously what the heck did I just read? Well, I\’ll tell you since the reviews told me nothing. I\’m going to full on spoil this entire book so if you don\’t like surprises, don\’t read my review because I always use spoilers. The beginning seemed interesting. I thought it was about a girl with a bad past living with some family members in a kind of run down house where they are constantly tight on money. The girl, Kady, had a teenage romance with a guy named Yeo who left for college and it was kind of a Romeo and Juliet thing since his parents didn\’t want him being with her. Well, he leaves for twelve years and comes back, but during the twelve years, he did try to contact Kady since it was her who wanted him to go because she thought she would ruin him. Whenever he called, he would get all these other people answering the phone besides Kady. One of them being their childhood friend Bones, or some girl named Agatha who I think was Kady\’s grandma? Kady spends her days at home teaching piano and worrying if Norman, her dad, is going to come back. Seems interesting I guess. The story moves quick with Yeo coming back and wanting Kady to come to a last minute dinner with him and his family even though he knows his family does not like her, He instead gets the run around from Bones, but later sees Kady and they finally reunite after twelve years. Dinner sucks and she runs off, but he comes back and reminds her they are good together and not to worry about his family. He later decides to have another family dinner, but this time with Kady\’s family so his family can better understand her. Seems boring. Like a couple worried about other people and trying to make a relationship work, right? Well before dinner, he asks Kady if she is going to be there. Weird question to ask, right? Then something about showing them a book which Kady is not sure of. Then Agatha makes dinner but does not show up for the dinner. Kady does and it all goes okay until Norman comes and carves up the new table Yeo bought for Kady\’s family. And everyone is just sitting there while this guy carves up a table and then the guy goes upstairs. Crazy right? Yeo follows suit and sees Agatha who comes downstairs and learns of Norman coming back out of nowhere for that particular dinner, then Bones shows up. Well, where is Kady I bet you\’re wondering? She\’s there. Yep, she\’s there and so is Bones, Norman and Agatha, Yep. All there, but there\’s just Yeo, his family, and Kady there. Did I confuse you? Let me explain. This book is about Kady who has nine alters, as in, nine different personalities because she\’s so messed up after childhood abuse from her father Norman. Bones is a guy who supposedly is a childhood friend, but is really the start of her nine splits since childhood. After Kady pushed Yeo away for him to go to college, Yeo kept in contact with Kady\’s alters by talking to Kady who was taken over by whoever of the nine chose to pop out. He and Bones had an intimate relationship as well, which was just Kady, but not really because Yeo wanted to just be with Kady without the hassle of Bones, but Bones was developing feelings for him so Kady told Yeo to sleep with Bones again one last time. Which is really just Kady. Anyways, Yeo\’s family is confused but his parents question him about Kady\’s care and what he is going to do for her. He thinks since he went to college to be a doctor, he alone can help her. But he does call an old friend to be his partner in the practice they are going to open. This guy also helps Kady with her alters. Since there are three bad alters that hurt Kady, they work to get rid of them and since Bones was her main protector, they also have to work to fix him or something. The whole thing was a cluster f-. I thought it was going to be another dark romance where a girl living in a run-down house was taken and you know, the usual. I don\’t think this is disturbing like a lot of others seem to think. It is f- up though and confusing.

I hated this book. Im not a book snob, just a regular person who saw people raving about this book on Tik Tok. What a mistake!! The best part of this book is getting a full REFUND and preparing for this negative review. After a few pages in I found myself cringing, repeatedly cringing, and commenting out loud at the horrible word-choice, dialogue and writing by the author. Such poor writing!! Reminds me of a freshman undergrad in creative writing class – total amateur. Also, there were MULTIPLE editing errors, just basic grammar mistakes like apostrophes that no one caught – whaat?? Has the author ever met someone who went to medical school? Because Yeo comes across as an angsty 15-year-old with the vocabulary of a 10-year-old. Such a poorly written, unbelievable character. Also, he needs help for being obsessed and codependent with someone who hasnt gotten herself the help she needs. This is not a love story, its obsession between the mentally ill. All around complete trash. Ive never hate-read a book before just out of spite because of all the ohh its soo amazinggg comments I read. Ugh.

If I could give it less than 1 star, I would. Dont read spoilers or reviews? What on earth are you thinking? How irresponsible do you have to be to promote such action when this book should have trigger warnings plastered on the front page. The whole idea of dont give anything away is all fun and games until the things youre not giving away are extremely graphic depictions of abuse of the most severe. The writing itself read like middle of the road fan fiction the used these horrific events as major plot points which only goes back into the underlying love story of the book. I could go chapter by chapter pointing out the plot holes. Also, if you cant figure out what the twist is by chapter three, thats vaguely concerning on its own. The concept of the book had so much promise but ultimately this is by far the worst book Ive read in a very long time.

I wont give any spillers except to say that this book wasnt worth the hype I saw on TikTok. I guessed what was actually going on almost immediately and the storyline wasnt good either. Super disappointed that I wasted money on this book as its not offered on kindle unlimited.

K. Webster likes to write books with a twist and she is the undeniable queen of this too. She asked her reviewers not to give away the twist and while she may understand most of her fans, I hate to say it she just does not get me. I want to know before I read. I tried to follow her advice, I really did. I downloaded the sample and just started. After 2 chapters, I was about done. Websters writing is great of course, but I just could not connect with Kady and Bones. I stopped and deleted the sample. Then, I thought better of it remembering how much I love her writing. I went back to the reviews of Whispers and the Roars and focused on the 3 stars and below reviews. I figured if anyone was likely to leak out a spoiler it was someone who did not love the book. The info was spotty there too until I hit on one review that gave me just enough that the plot suddenly fell into place. I absolutely loved the idea and bought the book immediately. So glad I did! I loved this clever plot and knowing made all the difference for a reader like me. The plot was not spoiled for me it was enhanced. I read romance for the journey and the story of Yeo and Kady is an absolutely perfect journey. I cannot recommend this book enough. If you like suspense with your romance, then just jump right in and know all is not what it seems! If, however, you are like me and you want the perfect amount of spoiler, read J.Ludys 3-star review entitled not the book for me. It may not have been the book for J.Ludy but it definitely was the book for me!

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