Disclaimer: I received this e-book from Netgalley. Thanks! All opinions are my own.

Book: The Words in My Hands

Author: Asphyxia

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 5/5 (just so I don’t lower the rating due to book formatting issues)

Recommended For...: young adult readers, science fiction, dystopian

Publication Date: November 2, 2021

Genre: YA Sci-Fi Dystopian

Recommended Age: Can’t recommend, DNFed

Explanation of CWs: Can’t recommend, DNFed

Publisher: Annick Press

Pages: 388

Synopsis: Set in an ominously prescient near future, All the Words that Matter is the story of Piper: sixteen, smart, artistic, and rebellious, she's struggling to conform to what her mom wants--for her to be 'normal, ' to pass as hearing, and get a good job. But in a time of food scarcity, environmental collapse, and political corruption, Piper has other things on her mind--like survival.

Deaf since the age of three, Piper has always been told that she needs to compensate in a world that puts those who can hear above everyone else. But when she meets Marley, a whole new world opens up--one where Deafness is something to celebrate rather than hide, and where resilience and hope are created by taking action, building a community, and believing in something better.

Review: If I wasn’t having to put a review in Netgalley I wouldn’t be writing one for this book at all. I’m also posting this on my pages because I use Goodreads, Storygraph, etc. and my blog as a journal keeping method since I do not retain a lot of information in my brain well enough. I’m sure this is a lovely book, but the format I was given is very screwed up. The pages are sideways and out of order. I really want to read this book, so I will come back to it one day, but for the purposes of getting it removed from my Netgalley lists I have to write this review and say I DNFed it at 6% in.

Verdict: I’m sure it’s great, but it was not in a format that was readable for me.