Fighting Silence - Aly Martinez

Sound is an abstract concept for most people. We spend our lives blocking out the static in order to focus on what we believe is important. But what if, when the clarity fades into silence, it's the obscure background noise that you would give anything to hold on to?

I've always been a fighter. With parents who barely managed to stay out of jail and two little brothers who narrowly avoided foster care, I became skilled at dodging the punches life threw at me. Growing up, I didn’t have anything I could call my own, but from the moment I met Eliza Reynolds, she was always mine. I became utterly addicted to her and the escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn't a single night that I didn’t hear her voice.

You see, meeting the love of my life at age thirteen was never part of my plan. However, neither was gradually going deaf at the age of twenty-one.

They both happened anyway.

Now, I'm on the ropes during the toughest battles of my life.
Fighting for my career.
Fighting the impending silence.
Fighting for her.

Every night, just before falling asleep, she sighs as a final conscious breath leaves her.

I think that's the sound I'll miss the most. 

Eu pensava mesmo que ia adorar este livro. E no início até foi isso que aconteceu. O problema foi o resto. Pensava que partindo de um tema um pouco invulgar, o livro poderia tornar-se diferente num bom sentido, mas para ser sincera acabou apenas por ser aborrecido. 

Gostava mesmo de ter gostado do livro. Fiquei muito entusiasmada com o livro e queria mesmo ver no que isto ia dar - se ia ser principalmente romance ou igualmente concentrada na história do Till como desportista. E apesar de ter havido algumas partes interessantes, também neste aspecto o livro pareceu-me ficar muito a... arranhar a superfície. 

O principal benefício de ter lido este livro foi dar-me vontade de ler o Fight Club, o qual já queria ler algum tempo, mas que nunca tive coragem de arranjar.

My Rating: 5/10