A Quiet Kind of Thunder

A Quiet Kind of Thunder

2017 • 321 pages

Ratings15

Average rating3.7

15

Steffi doesn't talk, but she has so much to say.
Rhys can't hear, but he can listen.
Their love isn't a lightning strike, it's the rumbling roll of thunder.

Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys, it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk, and as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.

From the bestselling author of Beautiful Broken Things comes a love story about the times when a whisper is as good as a shout.


Become a Librarian

Reviews

Popular Reviews

Reviews with the most likes.

Contains spoilers

This isn't a bad book. I just not my genere. I did find that I have more sensitivity to how someone with anxiety and/or selective mutism may feel and why they do the things they do.

Content warning: this does have some sex scenes that I'm not sure are appropriate for some of the YA crowd.

September 27, 2020

4.5 stars

January 23, 2017

— What could've been an interesting book about social anxiety issues and deaf culture centered instead on the romance. Promising start but got boring as it went on and ultimately disappointing.

January 27, 2017

Related Books

Books

9 books

Readers of This Book Also Enjoyed

If you enjoyed this book, then our algorithm says you may also enjoy these.