quaintrelle_chantelle's profile picture

quaintrelle_chantelle 's review for:

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
4.0
emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I loved this book. I loved the writing, the sentences without quotation marks… the rawness. The younger Williams & Rosie, stirred up long forgotten memories of teenage love. The intensity & obsession… the all consuming emotion of being so enthralled with someone as a young person, so unaware of so many other aspects of the world. As their story carried on throughout the years, I felt, deeply, the frustration of what could have been for them. And yet the lingering sadness of all that they had been through in that time followed them like a dark cloud.
This was a slow burn that I enjoyed so much.