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Soundless: Tobey Tyson Book 1
In the streets of silence and during a time of isolation, Tobey Tyson, a disabled high school student, decides to be the difference between what was and what should be. He stands up in the face of organized crime to defend a girl who he does not know which almost costs him his life.
After a hit and run leaves him in a coma, an inexplicable recovery not only restores his missing sense, but enhances him in ways he must work to discover.
Not only is everyone at school talking about him as the teen superhero, but he is back on the gang’s radar.
The mystery girl keeps appearing in his mind and around him.
With the gang just a step behind him and his family, Tobey searches for answers that can bring a stop to all of this. Can he get away quietly or must he embrace his powers and stand up to the gang again to stop the crime?
After a hit and run leaves him in a coma, an inexplicable recovery not only restores his missing sense, but enhances him in ways he must work to discover.
Not only is everyone at school talking about him as the teen superhero, but he is back on the gang’s radar.
The mystery girl keeps appearing in his mind and around him.
With the gang just a step behind him and his family, Tobey searches for answers that can bring a stop to all of this. Can he get away quietly or must he embrace his powers and stand up to the gang again to stop the crime?
113 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 9, 2019
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July 19, 2021
Seventeen-year-old Tobey Tyson never dreamed that defending a girl he didn't know would put a target on his back. When a hit and run leaves him in a coma, he awakens to find his world turned upside down with enhanced abilities he could never have imagined, including the ability to hear. After spending the last dozen years bullied for his deafness, he is able to learn what people really think of him. But his accident wasn't an accident. Will Tobey's ability be enough for him to save his life?
As someone who has studied Deaf culture for over thirty years, I was looking forward to reading this book. However, after finishing this book, I re-read the blurb (the one on Amazon, not the one I just wrote) and found that it was more informative than most of the book. While the descriptions were pretty good, the book was very heavy on the narration. There was a poor balance between the action and the dialogue, which often felt stiffed and forced.
I found myself very confused for much of the book. According to my kindle, I was 40% through the book before I was able to get an idea of what the story was about. Unfortunately, knowing didn't really help because the mafia plotline felt extremely unrealistic.
However, I might have been able to overlook many of these issues if I liked the main character. But, I had a big problem with the fact that the main character saw his deafness as a disability and a cochlear implant is the key to his being normal. Why couldn't he embrace his deafness? I also didn't like that his hearing magically reappeared, more or less confirming his point of view that deafness is a handicap.
I also didn't even realize the main character was seventeen until chapter seven. Based on his whining and complaining, I really thought he was ten. Throughout the book, the main character feels more like a young boy than a young man. For example, in the middle of the story, he mentions that he had spent the past year or two going for tests that he thought were for his cochlear implant but were for something else. Yet, he never questioned them. I do not see how a seventeen-year-old, especially one who desperately wants a cochlear implant, would not be asking questions as soon as he realized the doctors were starting to run different tests.
Ultimately, the main character gives the impression of being dimwitted and slow, with deafness being a handicap that hinders him. This is the opposite of a disability-positive story.
This book was also poorly edited. In addition to changes in point of view and numerous typographical and grammatical errors, to book was poorly formatted. Only a few chapters have titles. In my opinion, chapter titles should be an all-or-nothing thing. I initially thought there was an error with the table of contents and links, so I checked the paperback version, which is visible on Amazon. There, I found that the author's name on the page headers does not match the one on the front of the book. The chapters were also extremely short, often breaking in the middle of a scene, just to continue in the next chapter.
As someone who has studied Deaf culture for over thirty years, I was looking forward to reading this book. However, after finishing this book, I re-read the blurb (the one on Amazon, not the one I just wrote) and found that it was more informative than most of the book. While the descriptions were pretty good, the book was very heavy on the narration. There was a poor balance between the action and the dialogue, which often felt stiffed and forced.
I found myself very confused for much of the book. According to my kindle, I was 40% through the book before I was able to get an idea of what the story was about. Unfortunately, knowing didn't really help because the mafia plotline felt extremely unrealistic.
However, I might have been able to overlook many of these issues if I liked the main character. But, I had a big problem with the fact that the main character saw his deafness as a disability and a cochlear implant is the key to his being normal. Why couldn't he embrace his deafness? I also didn't like that his hearing magically reappeared, more or less confirming his point of view that deafness is a handicap.
I also didn't even realize the main character was seventeen until chapter seven. Based on his whining and complaining, I really thought he was ten. Throughout the book, the main character feels more like a young boy than a young man. For example, in the middle of the story, he mentions that he had spent the past year or two going for tests that he thought were for his cochlear implant but were for something else. Yet, he never questioned them. I do not see how a seventeen-year-old, especially one who desperately wants a cochlear implant, would not be asking questions as soon as he realized the doctors were starting to run different tests.
Ultimately, the main character gives the impression of being dimwitted and slow, with deafness being a handicap that hinders him. This is the opposite of a disability-positive story.
This book was also poorly edited. In addition to changes in point of view and numerous typographical and grammatical errors, to book was poorly formatted. Only a few chapters have titles. In my opinion, chapter titles should be an all-or-nothing thing. I initially thought there was an error with the table of contents and links, so I checked the paperback version, which is visible on Amazon. There, I found that the author's name on the page headers does not match the one on the front of the book. The chapters were also extremely short, often breaking in the middle of a scene, just to continue in the next chapter.
October 4, 2020
Can’t even imagine how lonely and heartbreaking the lack of hearing would be to live with. Add on a gang of local criminals who don’t take kindly to smashed noses, along with an understory of police corruption and a medical miracle. I look forward to the next book!
March 17, 2020
Real page turner. Cant wait to read book 2
July 15, 2021
A free book from Voracious Readers Thank you
Hearing impaired, bullied and standing on principle Toby brings himself trouble with the local mafia. What happens next?
Hearing impaired, bullied and standing on principle Toby brings himself trouble with the local mafia. What happens next?
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