fantasy
June has known that all the women in her family tend to lose their minds eventually. Anticipating this for herself, she has avoided most close relationships and entanglements and has dreaded the day it would start happening to her. Her mother had disappeared when she was born and she’s been raised by her grandmother. When her grandmother dies, June begins to accept that her decline into madness has already begun. But she soon learns that this ticking time bomb is not actually what she thought it was.
I was often ahead of June because the story unraveled slowly. Adrienne Young tended to repeat points that had already been made. I kept wanting her to pick up the pace. But, while I wished it went faster, The Unmaking of June Farrow pulled me in. I relished learning the details and wanted to find out how the characters were affected. And, eventually, the pace did pick up.
While I don’t want to say too much about the plot so I don’t
give anything away, I usually like this (unnamed) sub-genre of fantasy. So I
was patient with the novel. For those who have read Young’s Fable series (actually named The World of the Narrows series), this is entirely different. However, it is very atmospheric like Fable was. I felt immersed in the settings.
While I said the story pacing was slower than I would have liked, the audiobook narrator, Brittany Pressley, spoke too quickly. This was the very rare audiobook where I actually slowed the narration down a tick! But she had a good vocal repertoire and was a good voice actor. I’ll give her an A-.
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