How can they come to a deeper understanding of each other, and a find a future together? … ( more) But as their friendship deepens into something more, the difficulty in communicating with each other only grows, and it seems like everyone they know thinks their relationship won't work. Jake is more intelligent, more genuine than anyone she has met before, and for the first time Kassie starts to feel like her life has some direction. Until a sweet-smelling girl introduces herself to him unexpectedly, and opens up a whole new world to him. Despite the odds, he's highly educated, but at 26, he's gotten stuck in a rut, with few friends and no clear career plans. His disability has cut him off from the world, but beneath his isolated exterior, is a smart, sweet guy with a dry sense of humor. Jake has been deaf and blind since birth. Kassie feels compelled to try signing to him-the fact that he's strikingly handsome doesn't hurt. One day at a Deaf community event, she sees a young man sitting off by himself.
Now 24 and living in Seattle, she gets interested in learning sign language through her roommate, a sign language interpreter. Delaney, author of Precious Things Kassie has felt adrift ever since her dad died when she was in college. I'm glad it ended on a happy note."A heartwarming and beautiful story, and a glimpse into a world most wouldn't consider even imagining." -Gail R. It was an eye opener to read about someone who was deaf and blind and I truly felt all the frustrations that Jake and Kassie went through. The book ended so abruptly, I wanted to know more about her youtube videos and how Jake was getting along at work and school. I wish Kassie's mother was in the story more, she was so sweet! Dave and his friend's were such jerks, omg, I wished Kassie stood up for Jake sooner. I found it hard to like many of the characters because they were either really rude, or just cranky. The overall story was constantly interrupted by Kassie's incessant whining and the book was v. I loved the concept for the book but it just fell short. Review 2: *2.5* I've been waiting to read this book for so long and now that I have, I'm sad that it wasn't as good as I had hoped. At any rate, I'll be looking for more stories that feature wounded/disabled heroes/heroines. It was like seeing a sex scene in.IDK, 'Saved by the Bell: the College Years' or something.
It was so juvenile that the sex scenes weirded me out.
The whole time I was reading, I could hear an ice cream truck playing Pop-Goes-the-Weasel. Review 1: I appreciate what the book aimed to do, but good Lord, that was an oversimple story.
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