An unexpectedly good read that languished in my TBR pile for far too long. It's the story of a young girl with a unique form of mutism - she can speak only in bits of memorized speech: Scriptures, Shakespeare, poems. Her communication skills are limited to phrases she's picked up here and there, a...
The first half of this book is kind of genius, then it falls apart into a roiling mass of cliche, as if Lindskold got bored with the story she was telling and just rushed to get the whole thing over with. It's a shame, because the premise is smart--dystopian future, first person narrator who can onl...