Unspoken- Sarah Rees brennan

Paperback

Published 2013 by Random House Books for Young Readers (first published January 1st 2012)

Kami Glass is in love with someone she’s never met – a boy the rest of the world is convinced is imaginary. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she doesn’t complain. She runs the school newspaper and keeps to herself for the most part – until disturbing events begin to happen. There has been screaming in the woods and the dark, abandoned manor on the hill overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. The Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. As Kami starts to investigate for the paper, she finds out that the town she has loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets- and a murderer- and the key to it all just might be the boy in her head. The boy who everyone thought was imaginary may be real…and he may be dangerous.

Kami Glass is not your ordinary high school student, she is a pushy sleuthing wannabe journalist who does what ever she can to get the story, she also has an imaginary friend she talks to in her mind.She starts a school paper with the help of her angst ridden best friend Angela who for lack of a better word is a moody bitch. Strange things start happening that happen to coincide with the mysterious arrival of the Lynburn family after 17 years of being away from the sleepy little town Story-in-the-vale. As Kami gets to know the two Lynburn boys she starts to wonder if anything she knew was true..

Okay let me start off by saying how much I loved this book cliche love triangle aside. There was something so refreshing and gripping in Brennan's writing that I found pulling me in from the first sentence. The fact that Kami wasn't a single parent typical YA female protagonist was just welcoming to read, her family is very much a large part of the book as the background builds up the books main 

plot. I really enjoy when there's explanations about secondary characters. So let's delve into the nitty gritty.

1)teenage girl who doesn't fit in. Check

2)mysterious boy from a mixed background. Check

3) side kick best friend. Check

4) love triangle. Check

5) series. Check

These are the most typical YA aspects in pretty much every book most of us read it's not that there bad but it generally either makes or breaks the book and or series for us. I myself am not generally a fan of love triangles I tend to just either like both male characters or I feel that the girls kinda skanky to go back and forth. In this book I love that the romance is there but it's not at all centre stage it gets hinted and and played with but there's so much more going on. Brennan has defiantly written a story that grabs you and won't let go. I was completely surprised by the plot in this book I had no idea it was going the way it did and I was happy when it did.

The ending of this book is frustrating I will admit but it only makes me want to continue the series that much more .

I ended up giving this book a 5/5 I loved it and honestly had no real problems with anything that would make me lessen my rating .

Amazing series and I will do my best to make sure more people know about and read this.