Chelsea Knot has the perfect life for a sophomore in high
school. Well known by the jocks, she and her best friend
Kristen are the most popular girls in the high school. In
celebration of New Years, Kristen throws a party at her
house inviting just about everyone at school. With the hum
of rumors, secrets, and drunken teens, Chelsea in her haste
to use the guest bathroom discovers Noah Beckett, a classmate
from school, all over some other guy. Before she realizes
it, she tells everyone at the party that Noah Beckett is gay.
Because of her actions, Noah is later found unconscious and
is hospitalized. Now, after her so-called friends make her
an outsider, and with Noah's health constantly in the back
of her mind, she takes a vow of silence. She now knows the
secrets that she does not keep end badly for that person.
Chelsea takes a sense of comfort during her school day going
to art class, knowing none of her old friends even thought
of taking the class. Just as Chelsea settles into the class
on the first day of her vow, her mood abruptly changes when
Sam Weston, Noah's best friend, walks into the class. With
no other seats available, he has no choice but to sit next
to Chelsea. With her luck, they are assigned as partners.
Chelsea wonders if Sam will blame her for Noah's injuries.
When I first started reading SPEECHLESS, I disliked Chelsea.
She would not be my choice of a friend. I would not even
want to meet her at school. Once she told everyone Noah's
secret, I wanted to shut the book, but I didn't. I am glad
I didn't because I like the person Chelsea becomes during
her vow of silence. She begins to find her true self and
not the person her so-called friends wanted her to be. I
was able to connect better with her once she began to learn
what true friendship is and finding herself, all without
saying a word. I couldn't put SPEECHLESS, by Hannah
Harrington, down until I finished. There is something to be
learned between the covers of this attention-grabbing story.
Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret
Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her
into a social outcast—and nearly got someone killed.
Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silence—to learn to keep her
mouth shut, and to stop hurting anyone else. And if she
thinks keeping secrets is hard, not speaking up when she's
ignored, ridiculed and even attacked is worse.
But there's strength in silence, and in the new friends who
are, shockingly, coming her way—people she never noticed
before; a boy she might even fall for. If only her new
friends can forgive what she's done. If only she can
forgive herself.
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