A review by kleonard
Listening Still by Anne Griffin

1.0

This was pretty bad: an autistic character who is infantilized and pitied, inconsistent character behaviors, unexplained actions and decisions among the characters, a One True Love. It felt like it needed a heavy edit. The ideas is good: a woman who can hear the dead and works in her family mortuary is lied to by her parents and other family members, and has to decide how she wants to use her gift. But none of the characters are very deep or interesting, and the whole One True Love trope is simply awful, especially as it gets combined with Talented/Beautiful Person Dies Young. I can't recommend this, despite the interesting premise.