The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The author’s name “Kelly Andrew” is written at the top in purple capitals. The title “The Whispering Dark” is written down the centre of the cover in large white capitals. The background is a dark black. In the centre, a long purple flower, composed of several small flower buds, and two fully bloomed flowers in the centre. The petals of the flowers have faint skulls on them. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Death
• Child Death
• Ableism
• Injury
• Injury Detail
• Grief
• Violence
• Car Accident
• Gore
• References to Suicide
• Murder
• Blood

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Summary:

The Raven Boys meets Ninth House in the most exciting debut of 2022 — a dark, atmospheric fantasy about a Deaf college student with a peculiar connection to the afterlife.

Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she’s Deaf. 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. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won’t accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney’s unusual talents.

Colton Price died when he was nine years old. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton’s been ordered to keep far away from the new girl… and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows.

Delaney wants to keep her distance from Colton — she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming — yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them — and their forbidden partnership — apart.

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Notes:

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle editon.

A paperback edition was released in 2023.

Here is a link to the author’s website: authorkellyandrew.com

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Archivist Comments:

The concept of this book seems quite interesting, and the representation of the Deaf MC has been greatly praised, but some people felt that the book was lacking quite heavily in the development area, particularly in terms of world and character building. Though this seems to be a split opinion.

I feel like this is a book that could have a lot of potential.

I believe the author is also deaf.

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