okay,what the fuck was that ?xD

I get it..the subjects in this book are serious (view spoiler)[child abuse and rape (hide spoiler)] but the delivery of the story is lacking. The writing was not working for me.

*first review*Huh. I had to wait a bit before writing a review for Silence because I still needed time to think about what the hell happened.Alright, basically Oakley is a teenager in high school that refuses to speak to anyone because of a dark secret. She doesn't even communicate through texting or writing out her thoughts. You have the oblivious parents (view spoiler)[except for the father, Max, who holds a big part in why she stopped speaking (hide spoiler)] , as well as the "boy-next-door"

OMG!!! if I was a super emotional person I would have been bawling at the end!!!!! The cliffhanger TORE ME UP!!! DYING to know what happens in the sequel.

Some people have side chicks, well, I have side reads and Silence was one of them.You know, the kind of book you read on a tablet (mostly because it's free) and you "open" it once in a while when you're bored. Yep, that kind of book. So yeah, I saw this book on ibook and it was free. My first thought was "YAY a free book with a nice cover" and my second thought was "there is a catch". So I read the summary and WTF a main character who doesn't speak! Awesome, unique and opens up for so much alter...

2.5Silence is a book that I am going back and forth with… I'm on the fence about how to really rate it. Silence is written in dual Pov changing between both Oakley and Cole. Oakley wasn’t my favorite character. I didn’t hate her but I definitely didn’t love her. She was strong in some ways but overall pretty weak. When she does go into why she isn’t talking I did overall like the reasoning behind it. As far as a character that doesn’t speak goes she was pretty interesting. I did think that for h...

Jumped from 3 to 4 stars at the end because it made me cry. This was an interesting read, in the sense that we knew what the main character, Oakley, was feeling and thinking and others didn't. But Cole won me over from the start by telling her it was fine if she never talked again, as far as he was concerned. He loved her regardless. The reason why she stopped talking wasn't explained until the end (although you had some idea of what happened) and it was very sad, and made even more heartbreakin...

meh. it felt really really similar to The Silent Waters but as if it was made in China. i don't even know which one came out first, although my point does not reside in copyright but in the fact that, even though they had extremely similar plots, only one of them was done correctly. and it was not Silence for sure. even though it had more than 300 pages, it still felt as if nothing happened. everything revolved around the main couple and it seemed as if nothing else was happening beyond them. th...

Well, it was free so that should have been warning enough. Some how I didn't quite realise how... bad this would be. There were an amazing number of typos, spellings, punctuation errors that drove me mad - how can you not edit something properly even if you are self publishing? But the story itself was lacking: the characters were unrealistic and inconsistent. Oakley not speaking for eleven years basically didn't seem like a big enough deal to her family and friends, and then when she did finall...

It really did feel that this book was written by a teenager. There is an unacceptable amount of spelling, grammatical and punctuation mistakes throughout that somehow made it into the final copy. The story itself is too fast-paced; any event that occurs that is explored in any real detail is usually one about hugging or something. Details that are vital to setting a scene, like exploring Italy or school, everything is shrugged off in favor of dissecting feelings associated with hormones and an e...

I had a really hard time NOT throwing my Kindle across the room after reading this book; matter of fact, I took a day off from writing this review. Ultimately, I'm still confused on how I would actually rate this read, like, really, WTF! First, I found the whole romance between Cole and Oakley to be sweet, most known-you-all-my-life romances are. Jasper was funny was hell, too; now, that's enough of the novel's good points. Let's get to the heart of the matter: Beef #1: What the hell was with ch...

BEST BOOK EVER!!!!! (not exaggerating) *No Spoilers*I started this book thinking it would me like other romances just without her talking. I was completely wrong. There was so much emotion, mystery, and even a bit of suspense I couldn't believe how much I liked this book! I've read plenty of teen romance books and none of them will ever compare to this book. I read some of the reviews before reading this book a lot said "not even worth it for free" they were dead wrong. I have never felt so stro...

FREE on Amazon US today (4/30/2016)Book 1 in sereis, Series complete.BLURB:For eleven years, Oakley Farrell has been silent. At the age of five, she stopped talking, and no one seems to know why. Refusing to communicate beyond a few physical actions, Oakley remains in her own little world. Bullied at school, she has just one friend, Cole Benson. Cole stands by her, refusing to believe that she is not perfect the way she is. Over the years, they have developed their own version of a normal fr

I read this book in an entire day. I also read the review that went with the book. Not only are the people that wrote most of the 1 and 2 star reviews not very bright, but they also lack the knowledge that this author is from England, so the way that the spell words such as color and favorite different than we spell them. That being said, on to my review:I gave this book four stars because it took a while for Ms. Preston to fill us in on what was going on and why Oakley was silent for 11 years.

This actually might have been the worst book I've ever read. First of all, ladies and gentleman, your first time is NOT meant to hurt, so I am furious with the author for putting that idea into the minds of teenagers. PLEASE get some basic sex ed before you write about sex. The grammar errors were appalling, of course. And good lord, did we really need so many pages of Cole and Oakley kissing? Honestly, if this girl was assaulted for so long, I find it very hard to believe that she could have ha...

It's been somewhere around 7 years since I read this book, and this was definitely the meanest review I've ever left. So I'm deleting the original review and going to tell you that:1. This is a poorly written book. It's grammatically a hack-job (it needed an editor badly), it has a wonky story/non-storyline in that you really don't know what the storyline is actually supposed to be about 50% of the way through. And I genuinely believe it does a real disservice to victims of sexual abuse. 2. As f...

So I saw this Free on Amazon and I really feel bad that it was free because it is worth paying for.I mean Im sure the Author is doing a promo or something but let me tell you this book is a very well written and very moving book.I absolutely loved it. I cannot wait to read the next book in the series.Silence is the story of Oakley (how awesome is that name?) who hasnt spoken a word in 11 years. You already pretty much know something traumatic happened to her. She is bullied at school for not tal...

This book had the potential to be very good given the subject matter. The book was very short and I felt it took way too long to get to the heart of the matter. It was very slow moving in the wrong areas and then rushed through in the parts I felt deserved more attention. And I'm still confused about Julian. I felt he was just thrown into the story as a fill in. And the ending!? I have no experience first or second hand with this topic but it seems to me it would have been a lot harder to be whe...

this story broke me. the last few pages were so difficult to read, and I cried a lot. I felt connected to the characters, and I really fell in love with them and their relationship. TW: there are a lot of sexual abuse descriptions in it. There were a lot of grammar mistakes, which is why i had to give it a 3 unfortunately. The author would change tenses or even switch POVs in the middle of chapters accidentally which would make it a bit confusing.

As readers of The Phantom Paragrapher, you will know that I have a tendency to read series out of order. It is not something that I mean to happen, but it just seems to be that way. The only way it doesn't occur is if I force myself to read them in order but where's the fun in forced reading. Luckily, for me often the series don't necessarily have to be read in order like the Silence series by Natasha Preston. If you don't read them in order, you can still catch the drift. A few weeks ago, I re