kaybee435b2 's review for:

The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

3.0

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3 1/2 stars. This is a frightening story set in the frigid Alaskan Arctic tundra. It's very unusual, combining a story of a family with a 10-year old deaf child with an environmental/political thriller. The oil fracking commentary is important but it's not as effective as the interpersonal story line. The best part of the novel is the internal voice of the child, Ruby; she's is a precocious girl, learning how to navigate the world in spite of being totally deaf. The plot of this novel is a stretch but when Ruby and her astrophysicist mother take off into the hostile frozen north to find her missing father, there is some real tension created. Note - I received this book from Goodreads Giveaways.