A favorite of the year so far! I love this author's writing style and her skill of weaving a story that sucks you right in. This was an excellent read and will likely remain a favorite of the year. An author to follow for sure! I would love to see this translated to the screen!

Many thanks to my friends at @delacortepress and @prhaudio for the #gifted copy of this book.

Breathtaking and immersive.

This is my absolute favorite kind of read. I savored every word. I clung to the characters. I reveled in the magic. I found myself totally swept away with June’s story… completely lost within the curse and the romance.

It’s the way Young spins a yarn. Her writing is exquisite, and the prose is lyrical, no doubt. But it’s more than that. It’s as though each word is enchanted to speak directly to the heart.

What starts as a mystery develops into an intergenerational tale of the pull of family and the importance of finding one’s place in the world.

The Farrow women are vividly depicted. Each is intricately crafted in complex detail. There’s a fierce thread of loyalty that runs through the generations which produces a bond that transcends time. It’s that connection that June harnesses in her determination to end the curse that’s plagued her lineage.

Set amongst the Blue Ridge Mountains, I was fully transported to this small North Carolina town. Walking amongst the flower fields. Watching the horse gallop in the side yard. The scenes unfolded with cinematic detail and the pages brimmed with atmosphere, making me feel as though I was right there in that time and place.

And beyond the mystery… beyond the journey of self-exploration, there is a love story for the ages. It’s the tenderness of first love combined with the maturity of love that withstands hardship. It was everything I was longing for.

The Unmaking of June Farrow is an all-around achingly beautiful tale. One that will stay with me.

🎧 Narrated by Brittany Pressley, I delighted in partnering the audiobook with my print copy. A proper southern accent can be hard to get just right. But here, Pressley nails it. Not too sweet with just the right amount of musicality. Listening to her felt like I was back home amongst friends and family.

There is no question that Young can write a beautiful story, I loved all her books so far and will add this one to my list. I love how she binds her stories to family values. You can tell she puts a lot of heart and soul into her writing. She has become one of my favorite fantasy writers. I am looking forward to what she comes out with next.

One women and the need to risk everything to end her family's centuries old curse, finally solve her mothers disappearance. One town, murder, missing mother and love that builds on foundation to finally find a way to save the next generation of Farrow women. June is going to do everything in power to stop the curse even if it kills her.

Thank you to NetGalley and Deacorte Press for a copy of this beautiful story for my honest review.

5 stars

Well, folks, Adrienne Young has done it again. She has written another 5-star read and I think this one just might be my favorite. Which I think I say just about every new release. But June Farrow has my heart.

This book was phenomenal from start to finish. The Unmaking of June Farrow had me hooked from the moment I opened the book. I found myself laughing, scratching my head, and sobbing.

Adrienne Young will forever and always be an auto-buy author. Anything she writes, I will read.

Most definitely my favorite book... for now.

5 stars; I received ARC ebook courtesy of NetGalley! This will absolutely remain a book I remember for a while, and hold on my 5-star shelf, I shamelessly cried more than a handful of times while finishing the story. The concept of the story is entirely unique, brand-new, and refreshing, despite being about time travel. Navigating the timeline warping and character overlap was a bit difficult for me to mentally comprehend sometimes, but I LOVED it nonetheless. I found myself craving more time to lay down and finish this book, and thinking about it while I was working.

Haunting Mystery with a Flaw: "The Unmaking of June Farrow" pulls you into a small town steeped in secrets. June fights a family curse, time travels, and uncovers her mom's disappearance. Strong characters and vivid setting, but the pacing slows in the middle and some twists are predictable. Still, a page-turner for fans of magic, mystery, and strong women.

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young is a stunning adult fantasy with romance, time travel, and mystery. This book follows the Farrow women and their unique family history. June Farrow is the last surviving Farrow woman who starts to see things that do not exist. However, these are signs that June has been tasked with saving the Farrow women from a generations-long curse. I really loved the shocking twists and turns of this book and how the fantasy and thriller genres were blended so well in this book.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for a review!

I loved this, as I love all books by this author! Steeped in magic, family and mystery, this magical realism romance was hard to put down. I also loved the portrayal of time and the South -- it was all so well crafted. The book itself was art, and the characters were impeccably drawn.

I do recommend reading this with your entire mind, because there is much to comprehend. It was well done enough that I didn't struggle, which was nice and could have easily been different if our author hadn't used so much care. I enjoyed the timelines and twists, murder mysteries and romance. It was all very well balanced, and gave just enough melancholy without taking away the hope that I've learned to expect from this author. I was rooting for June, and her mind, from the beginning, and I was not left disappointed. Highly recommend!

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young is a captivating story that felt like Practical Magic mixed with The Time Traveler's Wife. June was such an interesting main character. I admired the curiosity and perseverance that she approached each challenge with. Her relationships were cautious but when she decided to love someone she was all in. The other characters were also well written and I especially liked Birdie. I love Adrienne's masterful gift for weaving magic into realistic stories of strong women. The magical, time travel parts of the story felt completely natural and intriguing and I enjoyed the differences in the eras that the Farrow women traveled to.

I tried to get into it, but there were just too many things that didn't make sense to me, there were issues with the timelines, the addition of the kind of love triangle that in my opinion just didn't make sense, the multiple people that June and Annie were, and the coming and going of memories... it was just too much to keep track of and for me that took away the ability to get lost in the story.

I do know a lot of people who have read and loved this book so to anyone thinking about it I would say give it a try and see what you think.

Thank you to NetGalley and Delacorte Press for providing a copy of this e-book, I have voluntarily read and reviewed it and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Well Young has done it again! The setting is perfect, the conflict is interesting, and like all good multigenerational family sagas, this one is beautifully complicated and interwoven. THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW is way more than just a novel about time travel. The Farrow women are fascinating and imperfect. Young leads readers to believe the curse is one thing, but then when you really dig in to it, it's something else entirely, making it all the more heartbreaking how it's coupled up with a few small town unsolved mysteries. And Young gives readers a protagonist in her 30s who is mostly settled and established in her life! This isn't your typical Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy that is full of late teens/early 20s characters.

Once I started, this was hard to put down. The pacing is slow, but I think that adds to the atmosphere of the both the plot and of the setting in a rural North Carolina town. The one thing I wish Young gave us more of was Eamon and Mason's storylines.

Advanced Reader’s Copy provided by NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Delacorte Press in exchange for an honest review.

This book went a little over my head I think. The time travel aspects of the story were confusing for me. I struggled to wrap my head around it. It would have helped me to have a character in the book who was an "expert" regarding the time travel who could explain the rules surrounding it. Because the characters in the book didn't fully grasp the time travel, I struggled to follow the story line. I also felt like some characters were forgotten because they were part of the other timeline. I would have liked more closure with those characters. Finally, the pacing of this was very slow and a little repetitive. The mystery subplot really saved this book for me and is ultimately why I gave it a mid rating.

A centuries-old curse has haunted a North Carolina family and the latest Farrow woman, June, will risk everything to end it. The door — always thought to be the sign of madness — appears to take June back in time where she will change the past and future, an impossible feat in a story rooted in, love, family and redemption.
While I found some parts hard to follow, this was a beautiful and imaginative story from a brilliant author.
Thank you to Random House-Ballantine for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

I tried so hard to get into this book. I have been reading it in pieces for months. I read a book a day and I couldn’t get invested in the story. I did finish but this book was so sloggy. It was not for me.

I love Adrienne young. I was really hopeful about this book but I ended up not finishing it :/ not exactly sure why but it wasn’t as gripping or interesting to me as her other stories. This may be a me issue as I think it’s just a personal preference. This book read a bit more like literary fiction than her others which I don’t love but I bet a lot of people will. I’m not going to review it bc I don’t want to leave a negative review

I own Spells for Forgetting, but have not read it yet so this was my first from Young. I absolutely loved it and I can not wait to read Spells. This author is so talented with her beautiful prose. I had a hard time putting this one down.

This was one of those books I THOUGHT I had figured out, but was totally wrong. I just needed to sit back and enjoy the ride on this one. Adrienne Young has an incredible way of taking a reader completely into the atmosphere of the novel, and even though the story had multiple timelines and I never really knew what was going to happen, she managed to make me care about the characters and the storyline. This was charming and romantic and at times quite tense, and it was only around 300 pages (which for a magical/fantasy is pretty short!) I loved the process of reading it, and I only wish I could have gotten more filler of the characters' lives because I ended up loving them so much. Great read.

Another great read from Adrienne young! This one reminded me a little too much of Spells for Forgetting so I felt like this was just not what I wanted

The Farrow women are known for two things: 1) their flower farm and 2) their curse. June is the last of the Farrow's and she plans to keep it that way. She has already started to see and hear things that aren't there, just like her mother; but unlike Susanna, June is determined that she will not leave any loved ones behind if she disappears. Then her grandmother dies, leaving her clues as to what really happened to her mother, and it very well might have something to do with the door she thought was just a hallucination. Are the answers to the curse behind that door? June decides to take a chance and find out if she can change what fate has had in mind from her since birth, and possibly solve some family mysteries at the same time.

In the Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young automatically pulls you in with her atmospheric writing. Immediately you are struck with mysticism and mystery, and you feel a connection with the characters from the first sentence. This is a slow burn mystery that just weaves you through and into the story. I wish I could bottle up the feelings I get from how this author can transport me into and through a story with her words, it was such a wonderful journey. The book itself is as much a portal of magic as the portal magic that it uses for the plot.

I absolutely adored everything about this book: the atmosphere, the story, the characters, the emotions, etc. It is not a fast-paced, wild ride of a thriller, although there are some action-packed moments - this is the only reason I can see as to why you would not want to read this book.

Adrienne Young introduced me to mystical realism with "Spells for Forgetting" and it made me fall in love with the subgenre and her writing, The Unmaking of June Farrow was even better for me and is one of the best books I have read in a long while. I loved everything about it, and am looking forward to going back and doing a reread to see some of the nuances in the story that I missed the first time around. This story truly transported me away to a different time, place and world for several hours. That is the definition of magic and Adrienne Young is the enchantress that has us all enthralled.

i absolutely LOVED this book!! Adrienne Young is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors for magical realism. This book has so much to it, it made me cry and laugh, made me feel happy, sad, anxious. June was such a relatable character! i really loved this one