Soundless
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3.3 • 9 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
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 is plunged into crisis, under threat of darkness and starvation.
Then Fei is awoken in the night by a searing noise, and sound becomes her weapon . . .
Perfect for readers of THE HUNGER GAMES, this epic fantasy from the international bestselling author of VAMPIRE ACADEMY will have you instantly hooked and on the edge of your seat.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Like her Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series, Richelle Mead’s new young adult fantasy features a formidable heroine who fights the good fight. Fei is an apprentice artist in an isolated mountain village where everyone has been deaf for generations. But when a new threat—blindness—descends on her community, Fei decides to strike out with her longtime confidant, Li, to explore the world beyond. With nods to Chinese mythology and plenty of adventure, this standalone novel will hook younger readers who’ve matured out of thrilling entertainment like How to Train Your Dragon.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fei lives in a mountain village whose inhabitants have been deaf for generations, relying on artists like her for their daily news. Isolated by rockslides and unable to descend the mountain, the villagers depend on food supplied via a pulley system from the kingdom below. The price of survival is the mountain's gold and silver, and the majority of the population works in the mines. But now Fei's people, including her beloved sister, are starting to go blind, which will mean their extinction. After a vivid dream, Fei wakes with the gift of hearing and struggles to comprehend the new sensation of sound. She and her childhood friend Li Wei embark on a desperate effort to avert her people's horrifying fate. Like her heroine, Mead (the Vampire Academy series) paints with a delicate brush (when Fei sees brightly colored silk for the first time, readers feel it as an explosion of the senses), creating a fablelike story that melds folktale, sacrifice, romance, and the stark realization of humanity's capacity to exploit others for profit. Ages 12 up.
