5 stars!!! 
 Fighting Silence was a really GREAT book... I really Loved it... it became one of my Favourites! :) 
 It's the story of Till Page and Eliza Reynolds. 
 Till's life was NEVER Easy or Good... with a neglecting mother and a mostly out of the picture (and troublemaker) father... he soon understood that he was on his own... it was him Against the World... 
 BUT Till was a FIGHTER... so since young, he Fought with all he had to make an okay life for himself and his 2 younger brothers - Flint and Quarry. 
 At age 13, Till found out that his messed up, miserable life was destined to become even more miserable... he found out he was going to turn 
 Deaf 
 one day, and there was Nothing he could do about it... 
 so he ran, looking for a place where he could be alone and Cry His Heart Out ... 
 he found an abandoned, ruined down apartment... so he came through a window and started crying... but inside that window there was a 
 Girl, 
 sitting in the floor, all alone, drawing... 
 embarrased because she saw him crying (and he didn't want to look weak in front of her), he was MEAN to her... even saying that there was a Spider in her Clothes AND Hair... 
 the girl, who was Terrified of bugs, obviously Freaked Out... and Till couldn't help but Laught his head off... 
 she was Mad at him when she realized there was NO spider... so when he asked her name, she refused to tell him her name ... so he started calling her 
 Doodle 
 . 
 Till started going everyday in the evening to that abandoned apartament, he would climb that window and there she was - Doodle - drawing. She was Fun to be with and being there with her was a breath of fresh air to Till's everyday life. 
 Till's life - his Reality- was a struggle, was hard and scary.... But inside that window Till found a magical place where he could be happy... 
 Inside that window there was NO poverty; NO disappearing, messed up parents; NO younger brothers to take care of or worry for... and NO going deaf either... THERE, he forgot the Real Harsh World and there was only him and Doodle... which he soon got to know was named Eliza. 
 "That window she crawled into is magic." (...) It's a magical portal that takes you to a fantasy world. There are no parents or teachers. Everything is nice and clean, and the pantry is always stocked. The best part, though, is that she's always there." 
 Till only sees Eliza there, inside that window... they become very close, they become very important to one another, they become each others 
 home 
 . 
 "I wanted to go home. But home wasn't where I laid my head every night. I didn't actually live there at all, but it was the only place I felt alive. What I needed was the dream that only existed inside those four walls. I needed her." 
 Years passed.... and their feelings for each other started growing.... 
 "Even at seventeen I knew I loved Till Page (...) I just wanted to live with Till in the present (...). A present where I kept his stomach full of canned foods, and he kept me warm and needed. I scratched his head, and he healed my heart." 
 And ... as years kept passing... their feelings kept growing stronger and stronger.... BUT how could they ever be MORE than Friends?... How could Till Ever risk it?! 
 "It had become more and more difficult to stop myself from kissing her, touching her, claiming her. But I knew that, if I did, I would eventually lose her. Relationships didn't work in high school. Something would have happened, we would have broken up, and then I would have lost her completely. I needed Eliza too damn bad to ever chance that." 
 So they just continued on being Just Friends... more that that, they became FAMILY... 
 "Till and I both knew we had a strange relationship. It was more than a friendship, but there wasn't romance or sex. There was definitely love though. Immeasurable amounts of it. I knew that Till had this grab fantasy about me. But what he didn't realize was all that he gave me in return. He was the only thing I'd ever had that I honestly though I couldn't live without. Till Page was my soulmate on every level." 
 Till is a Awesome Big Brother... he looks after his brothers, he cares for them and basically finishes raising them... Eliza is so Awesome too, because she not only loves Till, she comes to love Flint and Q too... they become each others Family :) 
 "And that was the way we worked. We picked on each other relentlessly and laughed unabashedly. They fought. I refereed. It was perfect, really. We were a family." 
 BUT... With the years passing by... and they turning into Adults... Will their Friendship still be Enought?! What if Eliza wants more? 
 And what is Till to do when, while struggling to become a Professional Boxer, he starts losing his earing? 
 "She burst out laughing. God, I loved that sound so much. I knew I'd never be the same when I lost it to the silence. I'd happily give up every noise in the world if I could just keep her laugh. But my life didn't work that way." 
 DO READ THE BOOK! This one is Really Good!... And I totally RECOMMEND it... I LOVED Eliza and Till so very much :) 
 "You're okay. 
 I'm okay. 
 We're okay. 
 Nothing else matters." 
 So...This book was so GOOD that I'm planning to Read the other 2 books of the 
 On the Ropes Series 
 - Fighting Shadows (Flint's book) and Fighting Solitude (Quarry's story).