A Sea of Unspoken Things 

A woman goes back to her hometown, twenty years after she left, to get her twin brother’s affairs in order after his death in hunting accident. However, the strange connexion she has always felt to her twin leads her to believe his death might not be so simple… from then on it unfolds the story of James Golden trying to piece together the puzzle of her brother’s life in Six Rivers the past twenty years. 

I went into this expecting a thriller with a hint of supernatural elements. What I got was a slow paced exploration of grief and life in a isolated community. 

The author does a fair job of depicting the process of grief and loss. James feelings bleed through the page and I found those moments to be equal partes heartbreaking and relatable. However, the plot spends to much time hinting at a revelation from their past that was fairly obvious from page 1, and it drags because of it. 

My main gripe with the novel is the ending. The story overall was fairly easy to follow and I did not expect some big twist at the end. So it came out out of nowhere when we got not 1, but 2. Without any explanation whatsoever we are just told who the murders are in like 1 scene. It let me confused as hell. 

Also the romance DID NOT needed to be there at all. It was forced and not believable. Maybe if they didn’t got together in the end I would’ve not mind it. The HEA came completely out of the blue and made no sense for the main character. It literally is just there to give the readers a positive note.