Book Review: Soundless by Richelle Mead

Soundless by Richelle Mead
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Good night this book...I honestly liked this book. The way it's written, the way its told, everything. But the way it started, how slow it was at the beginning...it irritated me a little bit but I honestly enjoyed it from beginning to end. I was intrigued by the fact that this whole entire book was focus on sound and sound only, and they only used sign language to speak. I found it fun and cool to read.

So what is this story about?

It's about a girl named Fei who one day got her hearing back, and her sister is slowly going blind. So she and her friend Ji Wei travels from their village, down the mountains to go talk to the line keeper, the person who they thought takes care of the zip line and the ration of food. When they made it down the mountain after starting a couple of rock avalanches, they went to a town and found more people that uses sign language, and they also find out from a woman named Nuan that the King is just using their village to get metal and then killing them off once all the metal is mined. Scared that that was going to happen, Fei wanted to go back to the village, even though Ji Wei told her that he loved her (by kissing her) and told her to run. But Fei had to go back because f her sister, so the two went to the zip line and Ji Wei threw her on the zip line so she can go back to their village to tell everyone, not him.

And she did...though it stopped in the middle because the soldiers found Ji Wei and cornered him, and Fei had to climb all the way back to the village, where she sneaked and found her sister, Zhang Jing, and the two reunited and went to the room where they paint (I can't remember the name of the room) and started to make a record of her adventure.

Once she was done, they went outside to hang it up, but as the villager's read it, they didn't believe it and tore it down, blaming Fei for everything that happened to them when she and Ji Wei left. Then the soliders came, rounding up the villagers and led them to the mines to mine, but they didn't get to Fei and Ji Wei, who was captured at the zip line, and they went to the Peacock Court, where they told them their story to the Elders. Elder Chen I believe believed them and told them of the pixius that helped them get rid of the soliders, and at the end Fei met her pixius, Yin Feng.

Also at the end, her and Ji Wei are getting married. Though I would like to know what else happened after Soundless, this is sadly a stand alone novel and it was really good and I enjoyed it.

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