I’ve requested this book not because it was a thriller but because of its wounded hero, and I was more interested in the romantic plot than in the suspense one.
I liked how the author treated the hero’s disability and how it was well interwoven throughout the story, demonstrating a wide research of various aspects (historical, social, clinical, etc.). Above all, I liked that she didn’t ‘forget’ the hero’s disability but really incorporated it in the plot, in a realistic and solid way.
The prejudices affecting deafness are also dramatized, with the vision of this condition as dumbness or “a question of mental competence” (quote from ARC), affecting the hero in so many ways.
As the hero is a rich aristocrat, he has an interpreter, another dimension well tackled by the author. He reads lips too, something that always leaves me a bit incredulous (but, unlike other writers, the author introduces this skill very carefully).
I liked the heroine's and Lady Eleanor tireless support of the hero.
I think that the chronological narrative creates some monotonous moments in the story and sometimes there's too much things going on.
Above all I loved a great hero, who his "intelligent, sane and deaf" (quote from ARC).