Major Characters:
Winnie Wednesday: Winnie Wednesday is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in Hemlock Falls. Where Winnie lives, everyone is separated into different clans during the week. Even though Winnie is a Wednesday, she and her family have been cast as outcasts for a sentence of ten years because of her dad, who is a Diana (a witch), although he may have been framed. However, since Winnie completed the three trials to become a hunter, she and her family might be accepted back into the Luminaries.
Erica Thursday: Erica Thursday was Winnie's old friend before she got cast as an outcast. Winnie and Erica don't have the strongest relationship now that it has been 4 years, but they aren't enemies. Erica is a Diana, Winnie finds out, and they realize they are looking for the same thing.
Jay Friday: Jay Friday was Winnie's old friend before she became an outcast. They are now dating, and Winnie discovers in the last book, The Hunting Moon, that Jay is a werewolf. But werewolves work differently in Hemlock Falls. People who turn into werewolves or have werewolf in their blood can change whenever, not just when the moon is full. Jay had realized that he was transforming into a werewolf earlier each evening.
The Whispering Night is the third book in the Luminaries series. It takes place after Winnie Wednesday finds out that there are Dianas in the woods looking to wake up the Spirit of the Woods. Winnie works with her now boyfriend, Jay Friday, a werewolf, and Erica Thursday, an old friend who is also a Diana. The three of them try to find out how the Dianas relate to the Whisperer in the forest, who can kill anything in its way. Erica has a dead sister who was also a Diana, who could have also been related to this situation, and her dead boyfriend, Grayson Friday, who was one of Jay's close friends. Together, the three try to solve the mystery of the Whisperer and the Dianas, with some problems ahead.
The book is written as a traditional novel, but at the end of a chapter, it leaves you on a cliffhanger, making you want to read more. The book is written in the third person, but you get a first-person view of Winnie's thoughts throughout the book. There are also descriptions of the different types of Nightmares in the forest as Winnie recites parts of a compendium that the Luminaires have put together.
People who like fantasy and a little bit of dystopia will enjoy it. Like the first two books in the series, The Whispering Night has cool creatures and action-packed scenes. This novel also relates to everyday issues, like people learning to deal with newfound popularity, navigating new relationships, and working with new and old friends. Teens who read the first two books will want to finish the series with Winnie's story.
