Soundless
by:
Richelle Mead (author)
For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village. Her people are at the mercy of a mysterious faraway kingdom, which delivers food in return for precious metals mined from the treacherous cliffs surrounding them.When villagers begin to lose their sight, their rations shrink...
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For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village. Her people are at the mercy of a mysterious faraway kingdom, which delivers food in return for precious metals mined from the treacherous cliffs surrounding them.When villagers begin to lose their sight, their rations shrink and many go hungry. Fei's home, the boy she loves, and her entire existence i
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141364865 (0141364866)
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Richelle Mead's Soundless opens on a mining village, nestled high in the mountains, fed and fueled by miners and suppliers and painted and documented by artists. Fei is an artistic apprentice, helping to construct a large canvas every day that serves as a kind of report: the happenings, the weat...
Well the main plot of "Soundless" intrigued me a lot. A hidden village on top of a mountain where no one can hear. Instead this village has learned how to adapt to not being able to hear and has broken their village into artists, miners, and suppliers. After the village has increasing cases of blind...
I really enjoyed this book. The world building was very interesting, though, admittedly there could have been more of it. I liked the characters, and loved the way the author reintroduces us to our sense of hearing through Fei, who has never heard anything before, and doesn't know anyone who can hea...
Quick review for a really sluggish read. Honestly, I had no idea what to expect when picking up Richelle Mead's "Soundless". Considering how upset I was over the bigotry presented in "The Glittering Court" - I almost completely passed over this. I'm now glad I didn't because it was better than I tho...
**SPOILER FREE** This is a stand alone, which is nice because I don't read to many stand alone novels. Everything seems to be a trilogy or some dragged out series. I loved this book because it was nothing like anything I have read before. It is categorized as Y/A fantasy. It takes place mostly i...