The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita LeganskiWarning - This book doesn't get any stars from me. I read 50 pages and said, "That's it, I'm not wasting any more time on this book." (Please note that I am participating the the 52 books, 52 weeks challenge but at my own pace.)
This book was recommended to me by an avid reader friend of mine. She really enjoyed it and said the concept was very different than any other book she had read. I asked her what it was and the main character, Bonaventure, has acute hearing (ie. can hear flowers growing and also colours). I thought, "Hey, I've never read a book like that but I will definitely give it a try and a main character hearing colours sounds pretty cool." I wish I was able to stick with it longer so that I could have experienced him hearing colours but in the beginning it jumps around and it talks about what he can hear while he is in the womb (so I got to experience his acute hearing a little bit but it wasn't enough). The narration was jumpy and all over the place and I found it really annoying. The mum and the dad weren't anything to get excited about so needless to say, I cut the cord and let this book go.
