Do you know what hearing loss sounds like? I do.
All my life I've tried to be like you. I've failed.
So I keep it hidden.
But on the day my world crashed down around me, Reed was there.
He showed me just how loud and vibrant silence can be, even when I struggled to understand.
He's unlike anyone I've ever known. His soulful eyes and strong hands pulled me in before I knew what was happening.
And as I saw those hands sign, felt them sparking on me, I knew: imperfect could be perfect.
Reed makes me feel things I've never felt. It's exciting...and terrifying.
Because he sees me like no one else has, and I'm afraid of what he'll find if he looks too closely.
The only thing that scares me more than being with him? Letting him go.
Impressions
Like looking through a beautiful window into the heart of two private strong people.
This love story is a sweet one, very well written, where you enter into the world of deaf boy and hard of hearing girl. It's full of simple details of the daily life that help us to understand how it can be difficult to adapt into a system who is made for people with good hearing.
I've liked the close community who behaves like a second family for Carli and make her feel welcome. And Reed was really a wonderful character with depth and an amazing personnality. Willow and Val were cool and fun too. Laura Brown has a great simple fun way of pulling you into the world she has created. Very well done!
It's a touching story and I hadn't have time to get bored.
It was a really cute and sweet one!
Quotes
"I wanted to kiss someone. And not just someone in the large, grand ocean of availability. This person across from me. my heart doubled its efforts and my stomach thought maybe the coffee was too hot. How long had it been since I'd felt that way?"
Laura Brown lives in Massachusetts with her quirky abnormal family. Her husband’s put up with her since high school, her young son keeps her on her toes, and her three cats think they deserve more scratches. Hearing loss is a big part of who she is, from her own Hard of Hearing ears, to the characters she creates.
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Source
*Arc provided by Edelweiss
I received this book in exchange of a fair and honest review.
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