Writing Deaf Characters in Fantasy
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Category: Read & Reviewed
My unfiltered bookish thoughts—what I loved, what made me cry, and the stories worth talking about (or side-eyeing). The ASL version of the reviews will be on YouTube.
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Being a Deaf Sensitivity Reader for Samantha Christy was an absolute privilege. “You can’t do it, can you? If you can’t describe noise to someone who doesn’t know what sound is, how can you expect me to describe the lack of it?” Quiet Beautiful Things By Samantha Christy Becoming an instant dad to a four-year-old…
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I’m still trying to figure out all my feelings for this book. It took you everywhere from laughing to second-hand embarrassment to tearing up (or crying) to screaming and wanting to throw the book to sighing and shaking your head. It was definitely an adventure… or a misadventure. The Misadventures of Callie Compton by Alyson…
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Disappointment. That’s my immediately thought after finishing A Song Below Water. Our book club, DEAFinitely Readers, choose this book to read for June – after all, it’s summer, so a black siren book that has ASL representation was a must. Sadly, the ASL representation was really used as gimmick. It was a way to get…
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This is one of the first books that I’ve read that’s had a specific hard-of-hearing character. Not a deaf character, but specifically hard-of-hearing. “Hearing aids don’t fix ears, they only amplify sounds.” The Un-Arranged Marriage by Lauren Brown In this book, both main characters represent something – Shaina (female) represents a person with hearing loss,…
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Princess. Magic. Deaf. A young adult novel filled with magic, adventure, and even a little romance with warring nations. “A little danger adds to the feeling of adventure, doesn’t it? This was the first DEAFinitely Readers book club read! Unravel by Amelia Loken Marguerite is a deaf princess in a world where her uncle would…
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As soon as I saw the cover… and then read the blurb, I knew I had to try to be a part of Harriet Ashford’s ARC team. Luckily, she said yes. “Well, give it time. They say tattoos are like chips. You can’t have only one.” The Trouble with Love and Ink by Harriet Ashford…
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This. This is the story that I have been waiting and searching for. The kind of book that has not only a great Deaf representation but also has a great plot. The dialogue was witty, there was believable romance (even with “instant love”), and a trope that I love to read – fake dating. The…
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Do not have your character have a disability JUST to say you have “representation” and to get more people to read your books. This story line of Every Wrong You Right had such promise. A hearing male learns ASL for the girl he is interested in, who is deaf. Obviously, this is a romance book…
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“Imagine telling someone that learning French would ruin their kid’s English, hurt their brain. Usually people scoffed at her and February would nod. It did sound ridiculous. And yet, though fear of bilingualism in two spoken languages had been dismissed as xenophobic nonsense, though it was now desirable for hearing children to speak two languages,…
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I love reading books with Deaf and hard-of-hearing characters. I want to read them and any that are recommended, I read. I do this because I want to see my experiences, my culture, within a book and relate to a character. If I take it book and solely review it on is it a true…
