Silence by Michelle Sagara

Silence by Michelle Sagara

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Teenage girl discovers she can see the dead, stuff happens. I liked the way this book walked with grief. Our narrator lost people, naturally, but it wasn't about that in some dramatic, weeping way. And it wasn't about pain. It was about grief, which is an exponentially more complicated beast.

Still, this lost me. Partly it was YA nonsense – leaden bickering, stupid POV tricks, that sort of thing.

I also had this whole train of thought about the autistic best friend, and how I would reserve judgment* on the way he is immune to certain kinds of magic, but how there is something labored about the presentation of disability in this book, like he never gets to be a person, he is always, always, always an autism-delivery-mechanism and we've got to stop to narrate about autism for a while, but, I just don't have it in me tonight, sorry.

* Were I to continue the series, which eh, unlikely.




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