SYNOPSIS: My name is Tess Turner - at least, that's what I've always been told. I have a voice but it isn't mine. It used to say things so I'd fit in, to please my parents, to please my teachers. It used to tell the universe I was something I wasn't. It lied. It never occurred to me that everyone else was lying too. But the words that really hurt weren't the lies: it was six hundred and seventeen words of truth that turned my world upside down. Words scare me, the lies and the truth, so I decided to stop using them. I am Pluto. Silent. Inaccessible. Billions of miles away from everything I thought I knew. Tessie-T has never really felt she fitted in and after what she read that night on her father's blog she knows for certain that she never will. How she deals with her discovery makes an entirely riveting, heart-breaking story told through Tess's eyes as she tries to find her place in the world. Rating: 4/5
First of all: the cover is prettier in real life. It has orange borders around it and the blue is a much brighter. I picked this book up because I loved the cover and its colours so much. The book itself turned out to be totally worth it though! I loved that Tess was not the stereotypical skinny, pretty girl who doesn't think she's pretty like way too many YA main characters are. Tess is fat and she does not despise it. "I am big and I am strong and I am powerful - a girl of Everest proportions who won't easily be conquered." I love this quote so much. Even though throughout the book classmates make fun of how Tess looks, she never lets it get her down. She blames their harsh words on them, not on her body. I do have to say that sometimes Tess's behaviour annoyed me to no end. She was a bit naive at times and did risky things that made me roll my eyes. Her silence had bad consequences that could've been prevented from happening if she'd just opened her mouth. But she does speak up at the right time and I think the whole book would've been much less powerful if she'd broken her silence earlier. This book was an emotional rollercoaster and I went from rooting for characters to despising them within mere pages and in the end I just wanted Tess to be okay more than anything. The plot was a whirlwind of emotions and everything just kept rolling and happening, so the reader never has to get bored. I would totally recommend this book to everyone! It's a fairly thoughtful book and thus not a simple and breezy read. But it is completely worth it! Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25250548-silence-is-goldfish?ac=1&from_search=true Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Silence-Goldfish-Annabel-Pitcher/1780620004
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