My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
Adelaide Te Ngawai was thirteen when Maunga Richards stole her voice.
Addy is plunged into silence when a high school bully inflicts her with an incurable disease that leaves her unable to speak, write, or create. Vox Pox—a man-made malady that’s been terrorizing the city for months. Resilient, Addy fights to survive. To not be silenced. But then her brother, Theo, is infected as well.
Desperate for any information that might help cure Theo, Addy follows Maunga into a newly developed virtual psychoreality simulator and discovers a conspiracy deeper than she’d ever imagined. How far will she go to save her brother?
My Review:
I received a copy of Voiceless from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Vox Pox is a kind of illness that has been released into the new world, and is ruining lives. If you get it, you not only lose your voice, but also all your creative skills. You can’t speak, type, or even write. Thirteen year old Addy has just been injected with it by a bully in her class. How did she do that? Why did she do it? You find all that and way more out in this book.
It follows Addy through years of her life being voiceless and lost but slowly growing stronger. She’s able to overcome it. Though it’s the future and the technology is much better, Vox Pox is relatively new and there isn’t a way to cure it. Often people commit suicide after they get it because it’s just so hard not being able to communicate with the world around you. Luckily, Addy’s brother has a way with tech, and can pretty much build whatever he needs. He works on helping her transition into her new life without a voice. On top of that, a new kind of immersive virtual reality therapy has become available on the market that might be able to help her. Will she have the courage to speak out about what has been done to her, even though she has no voice? Does it go deeper than that? This book is exciting and completely unique to anything I’ve read lately. It stands out and really sucks you into the story. I couldn’t wait to see what happened next.
Overall I really enjoyed reading this and found that the characters really developed throughout the story. I definitely want to check out the next book in the duology, especially after that ending! Definitely check out this book for yourself.
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.ca/Voiceless-Duolo…
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