Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Soundless takes place in a remote, closed off mountain village in ancient China, where all its members are deaf and receive food via delivery in exchange for sending the metal that they’ve mined. Fei is a talented artist, who fears for her sister’s life as she slowly loses her sight. Until one day, Fei regains her hearing and joins her childhood friend on a mission down the mountain to find help.
I’m not going to lie, I was disappointed when I finished this book. I’ve only read two of Mead’s books, Vampire Academy and Frostbite, and I actually really liked them. A lot. If I can recall, it was brilliant albeit cheesy. But it had the action, drama and intensity and I was expecting all this to come in her new novel that is supposedly “steeped in Chinese folklore.” But nothing really jumps out as remotely Chinese about this story. Aside from the pixiu, you could change the names to Rose, Lissa and Dimitri and this could be set anywhere else.
I get this seems harsh, but I don’t have anything good to say about this book, and that’s difficult for me, as someone tries to find redeeming qualities in even the worst books I’ve read.
I went on holiday! – I went to Marrakech with my family and, looking back on it, it was fun. But at the time, it seemed like everything didn’t go according to plan. But I did enjoy it, despite the majority of us getting sick towards the end.
(Please excuse the messy feature image. I made a much better one but for some reason, the file didn’t save properly so I had to rush a new one 
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as told by zaheerah 