Synopsis:

One woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting.

In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line for as long as anyone can remember. But June is determined to be the last of her name, and in turn, be first Farrow to never find love. The whole town knows of the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving her daughter, June, to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. Everyone in Jasper is certain that it’s only a matter of time before she finds the same end, but June hasn’t told a single soul that it’s already begun.

After her grandmother’s death, a series of clues linking her mother’s disappearance to the town’s grim past emerge, leading June to a mysterious door. Behind it may lay the answer to the mysteries that have always lingered like a dark shadow over Jasper and the Farrows, but the further into the unknown she goes, the more her mind seems to unravel. Upon crossing the threshold, June embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but entangle her fate and her heart in a star-crossed love.

With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a brilliant story with romance, mystery, and a touch of the impossible—a story you will never forget.

I couldn’t put The Unmaking of June Farrow down! Riveting, atmospheric, with enigmatic characters, all the things I know I’ll get in an Adrienne Young novel.

I’ve seen other reviewers advise this, and I agree completely: Go into this one blindly! I’d skimmed the synopsis but immediately requested this one because of how much I’d enjoyed Young’s previous adult novel, Spells for Forgetting (My Review). I didn’t need to know anything else. And I’m so glad I didn’t. I was able to immediately immerse myself into the story and let it take me where it may.

I don’t say this often, but if you haven’t read this one—and you fully intend to—just stop reading reviews. (Including this one!) You don’t need to know anything else. And now that I’ve finished the book and skimmed a few other reviews, I made the right choice because spoilers are aplenty!

Don’t worry, I won’t spoil anything, but I think this one is better read blindly.

…I couldn’t stop thinking that where we stood was the center of something, a place that created the kind of gravity that made galaxies.

Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow