I'm sad to say I had to let this one go. Last year when I read Some Quiet Place I was utterly in love with the characters, the story and just everything about it. I tell you I was oodles of in love with it. But Where Silence Gathers just hit all sorts of wrong notes with me personally. Some of it was undoubtedly my mood. I've been more and more disillusioned with young adult fiction as of late. However - my reasons for discontinuing this particular one is mainly due to the main character. She was aggravating. I take issue with people that wallow in their grief and self pity. I am very much a suck it up and drive on sort of a person. Is that cold-hearted of me? Probably some might think so. But I believe in using tragedy to empower you not giving into your desire to wallow and let it define who you are going to become - which in her case was all kinds of not good. Drinking, ditching school constantly, endlessly disrespecting the people that have at that point taken care of her ever since she lost her family. Unacceptable. You don't need years upon years to get over a tragedy like the one she suffered. Do some people sometimes need that long - I have no doubt some likely do. Does that mean I want to read about them? No. So again I say this is completely my personal preference. I didn't know her story was going to be a pity party. Then when it looked like another typical YA love triangle I was out, closed the book and decided - that's that. I'm confident the book is probably still a good one. I especially like to give it the benefit of the doubt given that the author wrote a book that I really did love. But this specific book, Where Silence Gathers, is more assuredly not for me.