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This review will appear on my site on November 4, 2021.
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I absolutely adored the audiobook of Cerulean Sea, so I was looking forward to Whispering Door, but for some reason it did not work for me. Maybe it was that Fantasy isn’t one of my typical genres, maybe I wasn’t in the mindset needed for listening to this one, maybe it was the narrator… I’m not really sure.  It could also be that I did not connect with Wallace as he was a bit of an a**hole, but that is the point of the book and his change over the course of the novel, but still…  This will be yet another book I will need to actually read in the future versus listening to the audiobook. 

 

The beginning of the novel did have my attention, as did the last portion, but I seemed to tune out the rest.  Whispering Door does have a similar feel to Cerulean Sea  and it seems that the two books are in the same universe as there were a couple of references to Cerulean Sea.  Maybe I was wanting more adorable kids and we just don’t get them in this novel.  

 

There is a trigger warning at the beginning of the novel in the form of an author’s note that the book deals various types of death including suicide. I will definitely give this one a physical read at some point in the future, but for now Whispering Door receives 3 stars.