Silence Is Goldfish

I wandered familiar streets feeling lost in the darkness, too scared of the stuff inside my head to be afraid of anything outside it. And now here I am with a plan that involves a goldfish, who looks shocked because this is not at all what he thought was going to happen when he woke up this morning......more

***Mildly Spoilery*** Tess Turner has just discovered something terrible. She read her dad’s blog and six hundred and seventeen words later her world is kind of coming apart at the seams. Soon she retreats into a world of silence, communicating only with her plastic goldfish torch, as she tries to ma......more

I think I have the maturity of a teenager as this book—and its language—very much appealed to me. In fact I was pretty much hooked from the opening page. Tess's an outcast. After reading the book I read some reviews in Goodreads and noted that some peeps there really disliked her character. I was sur......more

Every now and again I read a book that even when I don't relate fully with the main character, I end up completely immersed in the story and unable to think of anything else. THIS is one of those books. I had previously read (and loved) Ketchup Clouds, so I was super excited to read more from Annabe......more

This book was just okay unfortunately. I think I would have enjoyed this more if I was a younger audience. I probably should have read it around the age of 14/15. Because I'm 23, I struggled to connect to the juvenile and immature young characters. I also didn't find the plot or storyline particularly......more