Whisper by Lynette Noni | Review

Whisper by Lynette Noni
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Publication Date: May 1, 2018
Genre: YA, Urban Fantasy, SciFi, Paranormal
Pages: 317
Source: eARC from Edelweiss + Purchased
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Goodreads Description

“Lengard is a secret government facility for extraordinary people,” they told me.

I believed them. That was my mistake.

There isn’t anyone else in the world like me.

I’m different. I’m an anomaly. I’m a monster. 

For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes, Subject Six-Eight-Four — ‘Jane Doe’ — has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word.

As Jane’s resolve begins to crack under the influence of her new — and unexpectedly kind — evaluator, she uncovers the truth about Lengard’s mysterious ‘program’, discovering that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot … and one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.

My Thoughts

I have been wanting to read something from Lynette Noni for years so when I received the opportunity to review this book I knew I couldn't pass it up. Whisper follows Jane Doe, also known as Subject 684. For the last two and a half years she has been held in a secret government facility where she has been tested on. Through it all Jane has refused to talk. Things start to change for her when she is assigned a new evaluator and given a month to prove her worth.

It's a little mysterious by from the beginning it's hinted at that Jane has some type of power. As the story progresses we learn that her powers express through speech and because of something in herr past she has basically vowed to never speak again. Whisper wasn't my favorite read but I still thought it was enjoyable.

The story mainly takes place inside Jane's head which had both positive and negative effects on my enjoyment while reading. It was strange being inside Jane's thoughts because most of the time it felt like she was talking directly to me. I'm not sure how many people think as if they're having a conversation with someone and that brought me out of the story sometimes. On a slightly different note I though Jane was too accenting. For the past 2.5 years she has been held hostage and tortured at times and she automatically accepted what was told to her by the people in charge. It might have worked if she had grown up in this situation and didn't know anything different but since this has only been her life for such a short amount of time I didn't find it believable.

I felt like the author relied heavily on tropes that have typically been used in this genre of books. With all that being said, I did still enjoy the story. Whisper reminded me a lot of one of the later books in the Lux series by Jennifer L. Arrmentrout. If you've read it then I'm sure you will recognize the similarities. I was hooked into the story by the end. I have so many questions that I need answered and I can't wait to see what direction Lynette Noni takes the next part of this story.