I loved how original White Fox is and all the little Tenth Girl elements. included throughout.. It was easy to feel invested in the quest Manon and Tai embarked to find their mother. White Fox (the script) was weird in the best way and it's hard deciding who to trust.

Mireille Foix was a superstar, the last embodiment of Old Hollywood glamour, a naif who burst onto the big screen after a reclusive, impoverished childhood on the European island nation of Viloxin. Years after establishing her career, she met and married another Viloki icon, an American immigrant to the island nation who audaciously renamed himself Hero Hammick after gaining citizenship. Hero was the brilliant mind behind Hammick Pharmaceuticals, a man determined to unlock the unique genetic material of the island’s natural resources in order to create life-saving drugs for the world. Mireille in turn devoted herself to the Foix Institute she founded to better the everyday lives and educational opportunities of the Viloki themselves. She and Hero raised their two daughters, Noni and Tai, in a seeming idyll till the day Mireille abruptly fell off the face of the planet.

The girls, aged 7 and 8 at the time, were shipped off to live with their Aunt Marion, Hero’s sister, in New York City, while Hero and his younger brother Teddy buried their grief in their work. Teddy, at least, reached out to the girls from time to time, but after an initial disastrous visit to the States, Hero decided to remain in isolation on Viloxin. His death a decade later prompts the girls to return to the island, and to finally begin unraveling the mystery of their mother’s disappearance.

Speculation has long abounded as to what happened to beautiful, glamorous Mireille. Legend has it that she hid clues to her fate in the script she was writing for her last project, codenamed White Fox. Only one person claimed to possess any part of the script after Mireille disappeared, however: the viciously xenophobic Daria Grendl, Mireille’s former assistant, who sees herself as the sole rightful keeper of Mireille’s memory. As the girls begin collecting pieces of the script seemingly left behind for them by their mother, they are forced to confront Daria about what she knows. Daria is only too happy to spitefully explain:

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“<i>White Fox</i> tracks your mother’s loss of faith--her <i>disillusionment</i> with that diverse utopian ideal she and your father built their lives on--through her own life journey. <i>White Fox</i> is a failed Mireille, and <i>White Fox</i> is a failed Viloxin. You see, girls, your mother was just another victim of burnout. When her beauty began to fade--and with it, her charisma--the shallow pool of her skills became obvious for what it was. She was never going to create a utopia on Viloxin. Her best days, as a beautiful young actress, were far behind her. And when she realized this, she dove deep into her disappointment, only to unearth the brutal mess that is <i>White Fox</i>, an elaborate and woefully unstructured yarn of a prostitute who endures whimsical abuse after abuse but never ages[.”]
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But Daria doesn’t know as much as she thinks she does, and certainly isn’t the only person who’s seen what’s in the script. As Noni and Tai separately and together dig up more parts of a creation long thought lost, they find themselves edging closer to a truth that will shatter everything they thought they knew about their mother, their heritage and themselves.

Noni and Tai are terrific creations, squabbling sisters with very different personalities who manage to unite their distinct gifts in order to follow the trail of clues their mother left them before she vanished. The White Fox script is strange and almost hallucinatory, built on layers of metaphor and deliberate obfuscation, utilizing Viloki myths and legends to tell an almost lurid tale that’s deeply enmeshed in the Foix-Hammick family history. The girls react quite differently to all they discover: outgoing, glamorous Tai firmly believes that her mother is waiting for them at the end of the trail, while introverted, intellectual Noni has long resigned herself to what she believes is the most likely outcome:

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I was sad for my sister, then--and so jealous of her. Tai’s brain didn’t betray her by coaxing her into the darker reunion possibilities: Mama scraped empty by difficult years we would never know about; Mama revealing, stone-faced, that her departure had been for the best; Mama coming back only to leave us again. These were the possibilities that fractured my heart[.]

I’d told myself Mama killed herself so that she could be in control of her own story, in my head. So that <i>I</i> could control her story, and my own feelings of grief.
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Creepy and atmospheric, with Sara Faring’s trademark injections of mind-bending technology (as well as a very fun callback to her debut novel, <a href=”https://www.criminalelement.com/book-review-tenth-girl-sara-faring/”>The Tenth Girl</a>), White Fox manages at once to be a gothic mystery and a heartfelt examination of modern sisterhood. It isn’t quite as clever as I’d expected given how impressed I’d been with her debut, but it’s certainly a fine addition to the YA mystery genre.

White Fox is about two sisters, Manon and Thais, who travel to their remote Mediterranean island home to attend an event that is honoring their late mother. Their father has passed away and a decade earlier their movie star mother went missing and no one knows what truly happened to her. Manon and Thais need to know what happened to their mother all these years ago and if she is really missing. They dive into the world they left behind and find clues that help them figure out who their mother really was, and who they really are.

There are two different POVs throughout the story, one from each sister. I will say I had a hard time distinguishing them from one another and at times I had to go back to figure out who I was reading. There are a few hints as to their differences but they were so similar to each other that it made it hard to figure out who’s view I was on.

It also has occasional chapters from a script their mother, Mirella, wrote which has been lost and no one has ever read. I enjoyed reading the script and seeing how it reflected their real lives and watching the girls figure out what it all means. There is a bit of a technology aspect too that I found interesting, but wish it was explained a little more.

This was a bit of a slow read in the beginning, but it starts to pick up towards the end when you start figuring things out. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys slow, creepy thrillers that are worth the pay off in the end.

Thank you Fierce Reads for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

It's been interesting watching Faring grow as a writer. I was not really impressed with her previous novel "The Tenth Girl", but I felt that "White Fox" was a definite improvement.

White Fox, overall, is a mystery novel. Thaïs and Manon were shipped off to the US a decade ago after their mother, famous movie star and philanthropist Mireille Foix-Hammond, disappeared. All the girls have left of their mother are their memories of her and a rumored, but yet undiscovered, movie script she was writing at the time of her disappearance - the eponymous White Fox. When the sisters return to their island home for a memorial service/retrospective, they are confronted by sinister characters, both know and unknown, and family secrets begin to come to light. When part of Mireille's lost manuscript is found, hinting that their mother may not have vanished of her own accord, the Manon and Thais begin a search for the truth that may lead to their own disappearance.

I really enjoyed the creeptastic atmosphere that Faring weaves through her novel, and the slow burn beginning really helped to ratchet up the tension. The differing points of view, however, took away from that somewhat. The story switches between pieces of the White Fox movie script, as well as the POVs of Manon and Thais, and a character called Boy. While I loved the bits of the script, I found it incredibly difficult to distinguish between Manon's and Thaïs's voices - they could have basically been the same person. I felt the "Boy" chapters to be completely unnecessary, they didn't really add any pertinent information to the story that we didn't glean from other characters or from Boy himself when he shows up in the flesh.

Overall, I think fans of Farings first book will enjoy this one, especially the "Tenth Girl" easter egg Faring weaves into the later part of the book.

I have been on such a thriller kick recently that when I stumbled across this title, I was so excited to dive in. There's several types of thrillers and recently I had been reading more of the fantasy thrillers, murderer coming for you kinds of thrillers, but I hadn't read a disappearance thriller in a while. And this one was really good.

Our two main characters, Thais (Tai) and Manon (Nons), are sisters and daughters of legendary actress Mirielle Foix Hammick. I loved how the stories their mother told and her screenplay were incorporated in this book. We open up with a story, newspaper clippings, and other background information on who Mirielle is and who her family is. Then, we jump into the story.

While I was annoyed with Thais' character at first, she proves that influencers, their lives, and what they put out into the world is only a drop in the bucket of who they are. While phone addicted and a little self absorbed, Tai also shows that she's in tune with other people, always willing to jump in to help, and can make light of a situation as needed. And Manon? She comes across as very shy, has an overinflated ego, and a little mean towards Tai. But then we come to find she's also very strong, is aching for people to adore her like her sister, and generally an inquisitive person.

I really loved these dichotomies, not only as sisters, but between the beginning and the end of the book. As the oldest of three sisters, I could see myself doing/saying the things Manon said and my sisters acting like Tai too. Their interactions are relatable, if not sad at times.

Now, the actual plot - I really liked it! I love the mystery around their mother, her disappearance, and her past. The fact that the more they dig, the less they know. It was well set up, thrilling at the end, and had a great ending. I love the incorporation of the script in their search and trying to figure out who relates to who between fiction and reality.

If you're looking for a thriller that isn't paranormal or focused around a murder/murderer, you'll really like this book! It takes place in 2019 with some added technologies. Overall, well thought out, great ending, and great characters.

2.5 stars
I thought this sounded like a promising story with a great sister relationship and a mysterious plot line, but I was ultimately disappointed. The book is so slow through the beginning-middle of the book. We kick off with a letter from Tai and Noni’s father after his passing that leads them on the hunt for their mother who has been missing for 10 years. We see both girls’ perspectives as they go through this journey. The sisters are complete opposites and don’t really get along; their character development was okay. I did think they had your basic opposites-who-bond relationship and their hobbies were mentioned a few times then practically disappeared until it was convenient to bring them back in for an insult or disagreement. Overall though, the part I appreciated the most was their relationship and seeing them grow closer over the course of the book. What really made me dislike this book was the plot. I am not the best mystery/thriller reader (as in, I’m not smart enough to put two-and-two together or follow the clues), so I’m probably not the intended audience for this book, but I didn’t care for it. There were plot points that were dispersed randomly and events that would happen for no real reason that just threw me so far off I couldn’t find my way back. The ending of the book was an absolute trip; it was so rushed and seemed really disorganized to me. There were also so many characters involved in the story and in the leads’ pasts that I was so lost when another name would pop up. There were also romances for each sister that served no real point but to add about two chapters into the story. Again, because of my avoidance of mysteries in the past and my inability to really comprehend and appreciate them, I’m not really qualified to recommend or discourage mystery readers to pick this up, but if you’re not generally a mystery/thriller fan, I’d skip this one.

The atmosphere in this book is impeccable. You want to talk eerie? Faring has it on lock. As I was reading, it was hard not to get sucked into the wild woods, the worn-down mansion, and the secretive island elite.

While the book is great for the creepy feelings, it is, at its core, a story about family, especially sisters. The relationship between Manon and Thaïs has its ups and downs, but it is so realistic. When you're a teenager, every little thing is your whole world. When you're fighting with your sibling, it may be over something small, but it's your whole world. In contrast, on good days, you're the best of friends. I thought Faring captured this really well. I especially liked how Faring showed the difference in personalities of Manon and Thaïs.

The suspense in this book was very well done. I will say, at times, there were lulls in the action, but that just kept me even more on the edge of my seat during suspenseful moments.

I would recommend this book for fans of Marisha Pessl, modern celebrity culture, and suspenseful books. It's definitely appropriate for both teens and adults.

Sara Faring is back with another thriller, this time choosing to focus on a broken family and a missing yet still world-famous actor. White Fox is her second novel, and between her writing and that gorgeous cover, this is going to be a memorable one.

Manon and Thais have had to grow up without a mother. Theirs went missing when they were still young, and it's a mystery that still has yet to be solved. So when given a chance to go home and actually discover what happened, naturally these two couldn't resist. Even if that means working with one another, despite all of their differences.

“She's alive, I knew she's alive; she's alive, I knew she's alive.”

White Fox lived up to every expectation I had for it, and then some. It was a thrilling and breathtaking read, one that simultaneously explored coping with loss while also delivering a mystery of epic proportions.

If you read Sara Faring's first novel (Tenth Girl), then you already know what sort of writing style awaits you here. Faring dives deep into the world of her characters, fleshing them out until they feel like they could leap off the pages.

That occurred here as well, with the two sisters living vastly different lives – despite the mystery that they share. There were so many pieces of this puzzle, with even more room to explore them all. It was a true whirlwind, where it felt like nobody could be trusted.

In short, I loved every minute of this read. It was tense and fun. It was deeply human, and wasn't afraid to show the trauma that comes with loss, confusion, or the search for one's identity. None of the characters were perfect, and I adore that.

Another bit worth adoring? The sneaky references to Tenth Girl. If you didn't read the novel, it would be easy to overlook. But if you did read it? You're going to spot those references. Personally, I enjoyed that little hat tip. It also screamed at me about the character in question, and told me more than several pages ever could have.

“This game is special,' Teddy continues. 'The developer thing she's the Shirley Jackson of the VR world. It's set in Patagonia, at a rural boarding school for the elite-”

White Fox was a deeply atmospheric read, one that somehow portrayed a world that felt familiar and real, while also being completely out of this world in the details. It is a perfect balance, and this writing style will always get me coming back for more.

I received an advanced copy of White Fox as a member of Sara Faring’s street team so that I could share my early review with you! To celebrate White Fox’s release, I will also be sharing a costume design inspired by the story, so watch out for that!

Years after their mother’s disappearance, Manon and Thaïs have returned to the Mediterranean island that they once called home. The loss of their mother, who was once a world-famous actress, tore the sisters apart, leaving them each adrift in their own grief. In spite of the time that has passed, neither girl can quite believe that she is truly gone forever. So, they return to the island, drawn back by the possibility of a final connection to their lost parent. Once there, Thaïs and Manon discover their mother’s final masterpiece: a script entitled White Fox that just might contain the key to finding the truth of their lost mother and themselves.

You can get your copy of White Fox on September 22nd from Fierce Reads!

I am not the biggest thriller reader around, but I quite enjoyed the dark nature of White Fox. From the start, I couldn’t resist the gorgeous cover art, which I feel really reflects the tone of the book. The imagery and descriptors in the story were extremely crisp, leaving me feeling as though I was really living in the story’s setting. My only slight issue with the book was the dual-perspective narrative. Though I love a good multi-pov story from time to time, I had a hard time telling the two narrators apart. This wasn’t a deal-breaker for me but was definitely noticeable while reading.

My Recommendation-
If you enjoy books with lyrical prose and haunting atmosphere, you won’t want to miss White Fox! I’ve found that thrillers are most enjoyable in the fall months, so White Fox came at just the right time for me. This book would be a great choice for a spooky fall read, especially if you enjoyed Sara Faring’s other book, The Tenth Girl!

Thank you to Macmillan Children's Publishing and Netgalley for my complimentary e-ARC of White Fox by Sara Faring.

What I expected to be a rather straight-forward YA thriller was anything but. White Fox, by Sara Faring, is a layered, nuanced mystery wrapped in a dark and twisted folk tale. The story is told from dual perspectives--switching between Noni and Tai, the two teenage daughters of Mireille Foix, a famous actress who vanished ten years ago. Framing the action are excerpts from “White Fox,” the screenplay Mireille was working on when she mysteriously disappeared.

The story opens on the cusp of the ten year anniversary of her disappearance, and her daughters have been invited to a retrospective gala honoring their mother’s life and career. Noni and Tai return to their home town for the first time since their father’s death, and there they find a letter from him, insisting that their mother is alive; he’d seen her in the forest.

The girls, shaken, dive into the mystery, piecing together snippets of their mother’s life to try and understand the real Mireille.

Chilling and atmospheric, White Fox kept me guessing until the final page. This would be perfect for fans of Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood series.

I think this book just wasn't for me. It felt a bit overly convoluted, needing big sections of dialogue for exposition. I also had a hard time connecting with the characters. I really wished I had enjoyed it more, but it felt like a trudge except for in a couple places. It was an interesting concept. It just wasn't for me.

White Fox follows two sisters, and their journey to try and uncover the mystery of their mother's disappearance. After reading Faring's first book, The Tenth Girl, and reeling over her twisty writing, I was super excited to have the chance to read White Fox early.

White Fox has the same twisty turns, and eerie lyrical writing similar to Tenth Girl. The pacing definitely felt slower, but it felt necessary in building the mystery and creepiness. This book makes the reader feel uncomfortable and throws you off your guard. I loved the atmosphere and all of the Tenth Girl easter eggs sprinkled throughout the story.

Actual Rating: 4.5 stars

White Fox is the sort of book that creeps up on you, digs in its claws, and makes you wonder what just happened. Isolated estates, dark secrets, rotting glamour, and a fraught sister relationship combine to unpack the misogyny of celebrity, toxic family relationships, and the ways in which a veneer of wealth and privilege can cover up a blighted reality.

With a mixed media format, unlikeable characters, and a great many unanswered questions, this book walks the line of weird, creepy, and disturbing without becoming outright horror. It's difficult to talk about without spoilers, but I'll offer a brief introduction. I will also say, this is a book that left me uncertain of how much I liked it until I was well into it. It's not going to work for everyone, but I do think this will have a wider appeal than the author's debut The Tenth Girl (which I loved, but it was a much more polarizing book. Also there are a couple of easter eggs placing this in the same larger world as Tenth Girl, which was fun!)

Manon and Thais are the daughters of a world-famous actress who disappeared under mysterious circumstances when they were young. A decade later they return to the isolated island of their youth for a retrospective of their mother's life and the determination to uncover what really happened to her, and perhaps find the elusive script entitled White Fox that she was working on before disappearing. They enter a dark web of secrets, and each are battling their own demons along the way. Manon suffers from extreme anxiety and never feels enough like her mother. Thais is a social media celebrity who lives with a bubbly, glamorous mask that hides fear and grief underneath. And the sisters couldn't be more different.

This is a strange and complex book that takes unexpected twists and explores the hidden darkness within people. It crept up on me and then didn't let go. It's not light and there are plenty of content warnings to be aware of, but I hope this one finds its audience. I received an advance copy of this book for review via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Content warnings include (but are not limited to): graphic anxiety episodes, stalking, drugging, loss of a parent, death, gore, disturbing scenes, murder.

Synopsis: After their world-famous actress mother disappears when they are young, Thaïs and Manon are sent away from their Mediterranean island by their pharma-tycoon father. Years go by, the girls drift apart, and their father passes away. When they return to Viloxin, they discover secrets hidden away in the form of a long rumored script for their mother’s final work - White Fox.

Alright so, I started this book in the middle of a huge move. I moved out of my house for the first time and was doing major renovations to the new house, and I felt like this was going to affect my focus on whatever book I picked up during this time. White Fox captivated me and pulled me into another world while the one I was in was pretty chaotic. I’m really grateful to the author for this story.

The sisters reminded me of my sister and I - polar opposites in every way but with a love for each other so fierce it cannot be broken. Their relationship with their mother reminded me of our relationship with our mother. There’s that saying that you grow up and realize your parents are real people - they get sad and feel alone just like everyone else. This story embodied that so well.

I haven’t read a real YA book in a long time and I am so glad this was the one to break me into the genre as an adult. It was so enjoyable, so whimsical. It had a Gothic horror vibe to it while also feeling like a coming of age story with a mystery all rolled into one. I cannot day enough about this book. And the author is just a spectacular writer. Imagery was so gorgeous.

I can’t say anything more besides this book was perfection. It was smart and enjoyable and beautiful. I PRAY this becomes a movie because how amazing it would be to see it on the big screen! I give White Fox a 10/10 bubble baths. Be sure to snatch this one up when it comes out on September 22nd!

White fox is definitely one of the most unique books I’ve read. It’s atmospheric and very wild and for most of the story, I had zero clue what was actually happening.

We follow Manon and Thais, two sisters who lost their mom a decade earlier and are trying to solve what actually happened to her. The world this story takes place in sounded so beautiful and just completely wild and at times, strange. I loved the coastal feel of the island but there were also dense creepy woods that the MC’s childhood home was surrounded by.

This story felt like a long drive on a windy cliff and suddenly, you drive off it. It was all twists and turns and I have no clue where the story would take us and then suddenly in the last 10% everything starts to come together and I was literally shocked. There were so many elements that pulled this mystery together and it was cool to see them come together.

White Fox did take me awhile to get through though, mostly because I was confused at times and the manuscript included throughout the story just had me at a loss for most of the story. I also had a hard time differentiating Thais and Manon’s POV because their thoughts were similar even though their personality’s were the opposite

Overall, if you enjoy atmospheric stories that will keep you guessing until the very end, then I highly recommend this one!

If you've seen any of the Harry Potter masterpieces, you'll know that the stairs leading to the dormitories move around on a whim, confusing the students, and opening new paths. White Fox seemingly does the same, with incredible detail, revelation after revelation, you won't have any idea which path to take or what lies around the next corner.

Sara has done a tremendous job with this heart-stopping piece of literature! I can't express to you how many times I was forced to put the book down and gather my thoughts, trying to figure out this mystery. White Fox isn't just ONE mystery though, there are several in its pages. She (the book) has layers within her layers. One of the most interesting puzzles of this novel the relationship between the sisters, affectionately Noni, and Tai. These girls are flawed by design. Watching two young women discover hidden truths about their family, and ultimately about themselves, is an immersive experience. We see the highs and lows that genuinely come with sisterhood as they navigate their identities and purpose.

Taking anyone in this book at face value would be a mistake. Every single character is a story among themselves, a standalone holding literal plot twists. Sara's characterization is astounding. She's created the kind of characters that bring all the "you just can't make this stuff up" energy but, she has! The eccentricities in White Fox are so unique yet relatable, in the sense that I was able to really imagine being on some of the dark and dingy corners of the girls are led to.

Speaking of locations, the gorgeously eerie locale of this phenomenal read is the Mediterranean island of my dreams! Sara's Limatra is decadent and rich, painted with such attention to the minute facets that make a place so intriguing, you want to hop on a plane to see them yourself. The island feels like a luxury destination on one hand, and on the other, it's easy to see how tourism has wrung out some of the color of a historically lush location. I appreciate the way Sara acknowledges this in her writing, coming from a West Indian background. The phenomena of the Foix-Hammick family reminds me of the spectacle of the Marley legacy in Jamaica, and I was able to connect to the story that much more.

It's easy to get caught in the drama between--sometimes--feuding sisters, the family intrigue, the subterfuge of business, or the sneakiness of hangers-on. White Fox has all those and more but the best part of reading, among Faring's beautiful prose, is the way these moments are all connected. Much like every corridor in Hogwarts, the branches of information in this book all come back to one place, eventually. Everything will make sense, all the (major) questions will be answered.

Sara Faring is a mystery powerhouse, and I can't wait to read what she conjures up next!

White Fox is my first book from the author, and it was definitely different from anything I have read. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this intriguing mysterious book. It was not as scary and creepy as I thought, but much deeper and more atmospheric.

White Fox follows two sisters who return to their home which is on a very strange island because their father passed away, and they think they can find their mother who mysteriously vanished ten years ago. It was super intriguing and the writing was so lyrical and mesmerizing I felt like I could picture everything that was happening.

The two main characters who we get alternating perspectives of, were the one part I wanted a lot more from. They are both sisters, but the way they thought and talked you couldn’t really tell them apart. I kept thinking which one am I reading right now? I wanted more character depth and development. Also, it wasn’t as fast paced as I was anticipating, it didn’t really captivate me until about 60% of the way through.

I did not see that ending coming and it really blew me away. I think the way that this book is written is what I really loved, we get to see parts of this script that the mysterious Mirella wrote, who disappeared and was never seen again. Her daughters have never given up their hope that she is out there waiting for them. Not to mention I feel as though both of the main characters are unreliable, so I didn’t know who to really believe. I don’t think everyone will like this because it is weird and somewhat slow, but by the end you are captivated. I can’t wait to read the author’s other book!

If I could I'd give this 3.5 stars. I was fully prepared to be engrossed in all the twists and turns, but I found the story less than propulsive. The premise was absolutely fascinating and provided plenty of places for the mystery to become all encompassing. The setting was interesting, but fell flat for me. I couldn't figure out what countries it was supposed to be referencing (maybe Iceland?) and my confusion definitely took me out of the story, Creating a new country really allowed Faring to play with mythology and expectations while remaining grounded in the real world, but the execution didn't work for me. I found the characters interesting, but couldn't really connect with any of them. However, this book was fun to read and I enjoyed the format of script interludes that guided the mystery. If you're really into this type of YA thriller maybe you'll love it, but I didn't.

I was utterly blown away by The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring, so you know that White Fox is one of my most highly anticipated releases this year. And the core of what I love about Faring's books - thrilling and detailed atmospheres and elegant writing - were brought into White Fox. From the very beginning, White Fox begins bewitching readers from page one. I can't put my finger on what it is. The combination of sentences that chill your bones. Or the fact that, from the descriptions, you can practically feel the fog seeping through your windows. The stares when you aren't looking, and the fear thrumming through your veins.

Or if it's the newspaper articles and mysterious chapters scattered throughout White Fox, Faring is a genius at creating an atmosphere which swallows you whole. Combined with atmosphere, Faring has these two entrancing characters, Manon and Thaïs. I am a sucker for siblings, especially sisters, and so their sibling relationship resonated deeply with me. The bonds between them as sisters, the tugs and rough patches. How we can feel like we are the side character in our own life, the orbiting side show, and how this fundamentally changes our lives. The way the power of perception spells out promises and possibilities.

I simply couldn't find myself getting into this book. Perhaps I didn't understand it, but I just couldn't find myself getting invested in the storyline. While I usually love dual POVs, I found myself getting confused frequently since the two girls were very similar. Furthermore, I didn't find the main mystery to be cohesive and intriguing.

As for the positives, the writing was very good, but that's about it.

Try it for yourself but I'll pass on it.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC.