Rayne is losing her hearing. She’s grappling with not wanting her parents or friends to know how bad her hearing is as she doesn’t want people to treat her differently. Throughout the book, she’s struggling with no one knowing how hard it is for her. Her parents think that cochlear implants are the ‘fix’ for her deafness, and want her to undergo surgery.

With how the book is written, (words being asterisks when Rayne can’t understand/hear them) it’s so easy to put yourself in her shoes. You get as frustrated as she does when someone talks to her without facing her, or when someone is speaking too quietly.

I liked how as Rayne is researching the implants or when she is looking at deaf community blogs we get to hear so many perspectives. It was very informational for someone like me who didn’t know much about cochlear implants before this book. It was also interesting to hear everyone’s different thoughts about being deaf in general. I think it was really refreshing to have something not stick to one stereotype of what all deaf people must think or feel. 

The ending felt like the perfect way to wrap up the book. You can tell how much all the characters have grown and maybe don’t feel the same way as they might have at the beginning of the book.

~I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this title in exchange for a fair and honest review~