The world of Kami Glass is one straddling both the unbearably normal and the unbearably strange. Kami is first and foremost a girl with aspirations to become a journalist. This is her dream, and she refuses to let it be diverted for any reason. However Kami Glass is also caught—unknowingly—in a world of magic and sorcerers, most clearly by her telepathic link to Jared Lynburn.

This premise is admittedly strange, however Brennan makes it clear that the purpose of their relationship is not love. Or at least, not the romantic kind. Kami and Jared have been attached to each other all their lives without realizing the other is real and thinking they are only a part of them. The better part. They would do anything for each other. At least, until they realize they aren’t products of their disturbed imaginations.

Kami and Jared know all of each others secrets, and finding out they the other is real shatters them, and they both deal with it in very different ways. Because, as Brennan is constantly expounding, Kami and Jared aren’t the same people. They formed each other, know each other better than anyone else, but they can’t control each other.

As it turns out, Kami and Jared’s connection is not as harmless as they would like to believe. As a sorcerer, Jared has power. Kami’s connection to him gives him more, causing a myriad of other events ending in their separation. Which shatters them too.

What is amazing about this book is that it explores love without being romantic. Love is terrible and beautiful, and Brennan gives a thousand different reasons for it. This complexity is what makes Unspoken so worth reading.