Thank you to NetGalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book. I highly recommend it to everyone, it had heartbreaking elements and heartwarming elements. If you have forgotten what is important or gotten caught up in the faces paced nature of life, read this.

This book was unreal! Adrienne Young wrote a beautiful, unpredictable, intricate story involving time travel, second chance romance, and a little murder mystery (it was giving Black Mirror). The plot of this book is so unique. I didn't know where we were going to end up, but I was just happy to be on the journey with the characters!

I can tell I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long time!! Definitely worth the read.

I'm excited to read Spells for Forgetting by this author since I liked this one so much.

P.S. This book gave me all the folklore vibes, especially Mad Woman

this book is a masterpiece and one of the best i've read this year. adrienne young outdid herself with this one, i'm speechless.

Thank you to NetGalley, Delacorte Press, and of courses Adrienne Young for this amazing ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Ok, to start what a rollar coaster of emotions! This book has all my favorite things, we have time travel, we have small town vibes, we have mystery, we have MF bad ass and of course we have love. I'm still processing my emotions, because I literally ended this like 5 minutes ago but the awe of, what did I just read?, feeling is so strong.

We have 34 year old June Farrow, who comes from a line of unsual women, at least that's what the people of Jasper, North Carolina say. Farrow women are cursed, best not get tangled with them. After June's Gran dies, she's left with crytic clues and embarks on a journey that not only can change the past but the future as well. This is a story you'll never forget.

5 stars!

It's been days since I finished this book and honestly I still don't know where to begin to describe it. It's a lyrically beautiful story of love, time travel, and impossible choices. The Farrow's are a family line of women with the ability (or curse) to travel through time. But there are limits and choices and repercussions to their travels that affect all generations of the family. Young did a brilliant job weaving the time travel narrative. At times, it made my brain hurt trying to figure out the connections! I can't recommend this book enough.

This book was absolutely amazing. Adrienne Young is one of my favorite authors and everything she writes is pure magic to me. The Unmaking of June Farrow was one of my most anticipated reads of the year and it also became my favorite book read in 2023. I will think about this book daily, I’m sure of it. Thank you to Netgalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

This 👏 Book 👏

I went into this one fairly blind and I was blown away!

The Farrow women live a cursed and mysterious life. For as far back as they can remember, madness and death have followed them.

When June's mother disappeared everyone wrote it off as a crazy woman taking her own life. No one suspected foul play and everyone expected the same madness to come for June.

Now years later, June has started hearing voices and seeing things that aren't really there. She's determined to figure out what is happening to her and to break the curse that has plagued them for centuries.
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When I started reading this book I wasn't really sure what to expect. Within the first couple chapters I was highly invested and very creeped out (in the best way).

It's almost hard to categorize the story. It's magical realism but with enough to suspense and mystery to keep you guessing and keep you on edge. And that's what really hooked me from the very beginning.

I loved so many of the characters and loved to hate the rest. The Farrow women, the towns people. Everyone we meet in this story played a significant role in the outcome and I just love that.

The setting was beautifully written. The farm added a realistic (and hardship) aspect to the story that I appreciated.

Everything came together in such an important and intentional way. It is a wonderfully written story and one that I will definitely read over and over again!

Read if you like:
🚪 Magical Realism
🚪 Suspense
🚪 Mystery
🚪 Curses
🚪 Dual Timelines
🚪 Second Chance Romance with a Twist
🚪 Small Town

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC!

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June Farrow lives in Jasper, North Carolina. Her family is known by their thriving flower farm. June has lived with her grandmother since her mother dropped her off in an alley when she was small. The whole town remembers her mom’s disappearance and know there’s something just a little different about the Farrow women. Now June has started have visual and auditory hallucinations. She doesn’t know all the details of the curse that plagues the women in her family. But when she finds a photo of her mother years before her mother was actually born, she’s determined to figure it out and make the curse end with her.

This felt very much like Fall. While I am traditionally not a fan of books with time travel, I feel like there was enough of a story otherwise to keep my attention. I did have to really focus to understand the logic (?) of the time travel aspect, so I wouldn’t consider it a quick read.

The Unmaking of June Farrow was good. It was a story that had many pieces and it unwound backwards. What was happening to these women??
Brilliantly written it threw me into a reading frenzy until I finished. It was mysterious and heartfelt. An atmospheric telling with many touching moments that I’ll probably never forget. I definitely recommend.
4.5⭐️
Thanks Random House Publishing and Delacorte Press via NetGalley.

This was another fantastic read from Adrienne Young. The magic element throughout a seemingly average life always captivates me. June faces an unthinkable choice that impacts the past, present and future. I couldn’t imagine being in her shoes. I was very thrilled at how the book ended. 100% recommend

This is up there for best reads of the year for me. This is a fantastic combination of fantasy, mystery/thriller, and romance. This is a story about a line of women who can time travel but in doing so, they are cursed to inevitably lose their minds. And while time travel stories are usually not something I am interested in, this was so well done. Adrienne Young's writing style is dreamy and atmospheric. This book is perfect for late-summer/fall and foggy mornings on the porch.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Delacorte Press for providing an eARC of this book!

Wow! I’m still captivated by this read days after completing it. What fantastic story telling with romance, mystery, and a hint of sci-fi/fantasy.

June Farrow, and all the Farrow women before her, are outsiders due to the madness cursing their bloodline. Junes mother goes missing one day while June is an infant, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother. When her grandmother dies, June chases a series of clues that have her questioning if hallucinations she has had for a year are leading her to her end or somewhere else entirely.

I loved this book because it just never felt like things were what they seemed to be. I loved the theme of family and the women who made decisions to protect their family. Im still thinking about all the details and the characters, especially June, have really stuck with me. I’m not normally one for slow build books, but this was a slow but necessary and worth it build. I’m really not sure I have ever read anything like this one.

Thank you to Random House and NetGalley for gifting me an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review!

Unfortunately, this book was not enjoyable for me. This is partially due to personal preference since I don't love time travel stories; I likely wouldn't have read the book had the synopsis made it clear that it involved time travel.

But beyond that, I found the plot and the "curse" in question to be extremely convoluted and unnecessarily confusing, and it was unsatisfying getting no information on why the Farrow women are cursed at all. The pace also moved along very slowly, and most of the "mystery" element centered simply on people not telling June information that they could and should have. Having a mystery that revolves around secrets that people could easily clear up in five minutes with some communication doesn't intrigue as a reader, it frustrates.

June felt like a very passive character who just had things happen around her; I found that she seemed like an observer of her own life despite her being our narrator. The romance element also didn't work for me since her chemistry with Eamon was really just based on memories she inherited from another version of herself.

Some positives are that the prose was pleasant, and emotions and setting were described well. Overall however this book was, sadly, a miss for me.

For lovers of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Ten Thousand Doors of January

This one’s a page turner, and I stayed up late to finish it. There are layers of mysteries here which was engaging and fun. But all the layers meant that we never quite got to know the characters besides June and that makes me question whether this book will really stick with me.

I like time travel, I like fish-out-of-water stories, and I like complicated female protagonists. I’m not sure I found all the reactions and choices believable, but it might just be that we didn’t get enough time with each of the characters.

I’ll likely reevaluate this rating in a couple of months. And once again, I think the publisher-provided summary gives too much away.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!

Omg. Wow. This was everything I could want and more. This is easily in my top 5 reads on the year. It was twisty and mysterious, while also being so sweet. I loved being able to connect the dots, and the story line not being super obvious from the get go, keeping you guessing right to the end. It started at a pretty slow pace, but it wasn’t in a boring way. Once the story picks up, you’re so invested. I wish I could summarize the plot, but that would give it away, so just know it’s worth the read. This makes me want to read everything ever written by this author, if it’s even half as good as this one.

I enjoyed this book! It was so well written, the characters were great, and the storyline was fantastic. This was a solid four-star read for me, and I can’t wait to read books this author again.

📚Book 249 of 2023📚

This book was so good. I can’t wait to read it a second time to see if I catch new things! I’m a whore for time travel novels, so this was right up my alley!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Publication Date- 10/17/23

Firstly, thank you to NetGalley and Delacorte Press for sending me this eARC for review! This book… was an atmospheric and visceral read that will stick to my bones for a very long time. Adrienne Young did an astonishing job creating an all-too-real world with a whimsical yet believable magic system, which is what magical realism is supposed to be, right? I was fully entrenched in this book until the very end. I laughed, I cried, I grieved, and I loved right alongside our lovely and fiery June Farrow. This book is truly unlike anything I have read. It’s filled with mystery, longing, homecoming, and found/created family. If you are like me and are hesitant to pick up this story following perhaps a lackluster experience with Young’s previous adult novel, “Spells for Forgetting,” just take that leap of faith and read, you won’t regret it.

This book was so different than I thought it would be, but in a good way! I highly recommend going into it blind, but I will say it’s the perfect fall read. Slightly spooky with a mystery that will keep you guessing the entire time. I loved the characters and the romance was unexpected, but it was perfectly executed. This book would make a great movie and I would love to read it all over again now that I know how it ends. I definitely recommend this one!

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young had not business being this fantastically good. I knew I was going to enjoy this book and was very excited to read it but I didn't realize how much I was going to LOVE it. Adrienne Young's writing is so dreamy but easy to grasp and understand. I love it. The Unmaking of June Farrow feels so different from everything else that is getting published lately. It's original and you can't categorize it quickly, which I really like. The character development is wonderful, you can't help but feel for them and they definitely make the whole book. Thank you to NetGalley and Balletine for an ARC of this beautifully written book.