The Whispering Night by Susan DennardMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
In which a less brooding Wednesday than Addams goes to the Rave’N…sorry, the Nightmare Masquerade. I said I wasn’t likely to continue this series after The Hunting Moon, but after more cover love with this gloriously creepy image, Dennard suckered me in for one last visit to Winnie Wednesday’s hometown…or is it? For being the end of a trilogy, it feels like there’s a lot of loose plot threads left hanging. Unfortunately that’s more or less to be expected from a series that, for me, defines “missed potential.” Maybe this one should’ve stayed in the Twitter and Instagram polls, because it just never came to life for me as a book or three. That, plus Dennard bizarrely prioritized this over the Witchlands with only one book left in that series - did she sign a contract she couldn’t get out of? Thankfully, her true flagship series is finally expected later this year, along with a new standalone fantasy mystery of a similar vibe to this series, The Executioners Three. In spite of myself, I’m still looking forward to Executioners, if only because I’m hoping Dennard can get right with that one, what she wasn’t able to do for The Luminaries.
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