A review by justabean_reads
Silent Dances by Kathleen O'Malley, A.C. Crispin
4.0
Based partly on O'Mally's experience to crane and eagle rehab, and working with deaf students in that context.
I still adore this series. It's humanity going to the stars, for good and ill, and how different cultures from earth still exist, and may interact differently with each other and with aliens. The protag is deaf and First Nations, and that makes the story feel very different than the adventures in the first book, but at the same time, it's still young people trying to learn about the universe. I miss optimistic sci fi!
I would say that the story sometimes came off as Deaf culture 101, though I didn't notice that as much the first time I read it, when I didn't know very much about Deaf culture, so ymmv.
I still adore this series. It's humanity going to the stars, for good and ill, and how different cultures from earth still exist, and may interact differently with each other and with aliens. The protag is deaf and First Nations, and that makes the story feel very different than the adventures in the first book, but at the same time, it's still young people trying to learn about the universe. I miss optimistic sci fi!
I would say that the story sometimes came off as Deaf culture 101, though I didn't notice that as much the first time I read it, when I didn't know very much about Deaf culture, so ymmv.