Hey everyone I’m coming at you with another book review. Check out my blog and my other book reviews to get a feel of how I review things. Today I’m dropping a review to the book called Speechless by Ava Cates.
It all begins when an attractive guy suddenly shows an interest in her. Then wait. . . could she actually hear him? She thinks she did, but just as quickly as the sounds came, they vanished, and with them so did the guy. How was this even possible? Was she getting her hearing back? Plus, there’s a fire no one can remember but her. (Maybe her mind is going too?) But that is not all: a ‘mean’ girl has also taken an interest in her, a symbolic mark appears down Julia’s back that she can’t explain, and not everyone is who they say they are.
Julia’s life will never be the same after this year. And definitely, not like how it was before. It’s enough to leave a person. . . Speechless.
The book starts with the audience getting aquainted with the main protagonist named Julia entering her first year of high school. She isn’t considered normal by herself or her peers because of her disability. She is a shy girl who only has one or two friends and is nervous to form frienships with people no matter how desperately she wants to. The reader meets her aid named Helen and then her friend named Jill who is the opposite of Julia in her mind, Jill is beautiful and popular. Julia is not an only child as she has an older brother named Brian and they both live together on a farm with thier mother.
The book starts off fairly normal and very highschool as the reader gets a sense of all Julia’s insecurities and her personality then the book starts filling to the brim with action because Julia can do something she hasn’t been able to do in years and wants to find out how and why she can all of a sudden do it. She of course tells the people around her about the strange phenomenon and they don’t believe her.
After Julia starts snooping around for more answers the reader is introduced to other characters like Jeremy, Luke, Madeline, Meg, and Jacob. Every character has their own personalities that the author Ava Cates does an amazing job mixing in with Julia’s, whether they clash or get along each character is memorable and doesn’t feel like a lose end.
The plot continues to build at a steady pace where we get some action and well described fight scenes as well as character growth from Julia and Luke. But of course this is a paranormal romance novel so in comes the love triangle between Luke, Jeremy, and Julia. To protect her family Julia needs to keep all the paranormal and the romance aspect of her life a secret which proves to be a challenge since they are both so overprotective of her. Julia learns some devastating truths about who she is and in the end she ends up with some strange marking on her back and a mindful of questions.
Speechless is a great start to a series that develops the characters well, keeps the plot interesting leaving the reader wanting answers, and confusing romance aspects that rival any other paranormal romance novel I have read. If you are someone like me who is always interested in paranormal romance or fantasy this an easy book to devour. I’m excited to see how this series develops as this is only part 1 of a six book series. So don’t wait go check out Speechless by Ava Cates for yourselves and let me know what your opinon of the it is!
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