Title: Whispers in Autumn (Book #1)

Series: The Last Year

Author: Trisha Leigh

Narrator: Brielle Silvestri

Publish Date: July 21st, 2012

Publisher: CreateSpace

Genre: YA/Science Fiction/Dystopia

Reading Format: Audio Book

Summary:

Althea isn’t like everyone else. Surrounded by constantly happy people and the alien race The Others who invaded earth 16 years ago she finds herself different than anyone else on planet earth. Althea’s also finds herself in a different town with different family depending on the season, and all Althea has in her position is a locket with a note from ‘Ko’ who tells her to trust no one. Now that she’s back in Connecticut with the Morgans, Althea’s just trying to get by without anyone noticing she’s different until a boy named Lucas shows up and changes everything.

What I liked about Whispers in Autumn:

I’m not a massive Science Fiction fan or someone who reads books about alien invasions but I’m someone who will choose a book based off of its cover, which is exactly why I chose Whispers in Autumn. Other than the cover the story in general was pretty good and I found myself reacting to the story as I listened to it in my car to and from work.

I really liked Althea and the changes and discoveries she makes in the first book. Her interactions with her Autumn family and the other people in town was a very interesting thing to me as everyone but her only ever seems to emote being happy while Althea is fully capable of feeling all emotions but has to hide it so that she doesn’t stand out. It was a great concept to the book as I would imagine it would be quite difficult to pretend to be happy or contempt all the time even when you aren’t.

What I didn’t like about Whispers in Autumn:

Because I listened to this book  in the audio format sometimes the narration bothered me. In this particular instance the word “won’t” kept distracting me whenever it came up in the story just because it sounded very Canadian and its told from Althea’s perspective who is American, so I felt that it didn’t match with the everything else.

Also for some reason when something was driving Althea crazy or a situation felt crazy she would use the word “Banana balls” which quite frankly would drive me banana balls. (See what I did there)

Overall thoughts:

I really enjoyed Whispers in Autumn and I plan to continue the series. It’s different than any other dystopian books I’ve read and I would easily recommend this book for anyone who likes YA dystopias or Science Fiction.

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Happy Reading,

Meghan