The Unmaking of June Farrow
Written by: Adrienne Young
Delacorte Press
2023
A little trippy, The Unmaking of June Farrow takes readers back in time to solve the mystery of her family’s curse.
The Unmaking of June Farrow is a wild ride. Dealing with a family curse and her mother’s mysterious disappearance, June is determined to solve the mystery.
Storytelling
This novel was wild. The women in the Farrow family are plagued with this curse, this ability to travel back in time, to go through a door and be somewhere else in time. However, this causes a fraying of their mind, putting it in two places and forcing them to live the what-ifs and past as they live.
For June, she is determined to end the curse on herself. But when her grandmother dies, leaving her with a mysterious photo of her mother in the past…and a man whose death is never solved….a man she learns is her father.
Reading this novel was…tricky, to say the least. It was not tricky because it was hard to understand, but it was tricky in how most time travel stories usually are.
Personally, I loved it. I loved wrapping my head around the mystery, the time travel aspect of the novel, and the formed paradoxes. And by the time I reached the end, I was filled with this melancholy.
It’s bittersweet at the end, especially given how the story unravels. As the reader, you understand the story is a loop; it will repeat and unfold in precisely the same way.
And it’s moving to be so emotionally attached to the characters and how June evolved. To see how the characters will be affected by her decisions and how the whole story is impacted.
Final Thoughts
The Unmaking of June Farrow was, well, I think, brilliantly done. I can’t quite pinpoint the exact word to describe it, but for a novel that deals with time travel, you’re invested in the story and mystery as a reader.
Wild and Slightly Trippy | The Unmaking of June Farrow Review
A little trippy, The Unmaking of June Farrow takes readers back in time to solve the mystery of her family’s curse.
Cynthia Ayala
Cynthia Ayala-Bujnicki majored in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. Editor-in-chief of Cyn's Workshop, she loves to read and write while tending to her pepper plants. She currently lives in South Florida with her husband, two kids Dante and Selene and two furbabies Mr. J the Kitten who Thinks He's Batman (yes, that is his full name) and Nyx.
