Dead Silence

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Things are tense from the start, but as the crew discover bodies under beds, people horri­bly mutilated, messages on the walls, and fragments of messages on the Aurora’s communications sys­tem, that tension increases tenfold and fear makes an appearance, and then stays for the duration of the novel. They were complex and very real, making them easy to associate with, even as they all existed across various shades of gray. Some parts are absolutely terrifying, but the book eventually settles into a very intriguing thriller, with the suspense keeping you hooked until the last page. The PTSD that came from that is a constant presence in her life and contributes greatly to her nerves and insecurities, both of which are exacerbated by the thought of losing her job and being stuck on Earth after this last gig, which is something she hates and fears in equal measure. Barnes’s Dead Silence is a creepy and incredibly at­mospheric horror novel that bridges the gap between Gothic horror and extreme horror while simultaneously exploring the role that past trauma and PTSD can play when someone who suffers from them is exposed to fresh trauma.

It feels like this book wanted to be a mash-up of Event Horizon and The Haunting of Hill House, but ended up being more like Disney's Haunted Mansion in space. This novel felt like it was just a mash-up of other horror movies/novels hoping to combine them to deliver a winner and it was nowhere near that in any way, shape, or form. Locus Magazine is an indispensable resource for sf/f/h readers because it’s the only magazine devoted to the world of speculative fiction books. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Honestly, probably one of the best books I have listened to the performance was perfect and the story was gripping from start to finish if you’re a fan of the alien franchise, you should enjoy this it’s spooky and creepy and keeps you guessing all the way through!The vibe I was getting reminded me very much of Event Horizon—creepy, atmospheric, and tense as all hell. Dead Silence has many admirable qualities and I loved the manner in which it is pitched as a science fiction novel, but never dwells on the mechanics of the ‘science’ but remains very rational and believable.

BARNES works in a high school library by day, recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese-stick-as-bookmark. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Claire and crew are on the last leg of their mission in space when they hear a distress beacon and go to check it out. by commentators, guest bloggers, reviewers, and interviewees are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions of Locus magazine or its staff.Their salvage claim could solve the entire team’s problems and take away all worries about the future. It also helped that Claire herself was an unreliable narrator, so it was hard to know exactly what horror was coming from her and what was coming from the strange happenings on the Aurora. Not to mention all the “exploratory” diagnostics and procedures over the last three weeks in the Tower. Titanic meets The Shining in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn’t yet ended. The frame story explicitly established that the lead would survive the initial encounter and heavily hinted that her employers were seeking to establish contact with the lost luxury ship, despite her objections.

Dead Silence is a proper ghost story, complete with a narrator who’s trying desperately to shake off her own unreliability. And the questions introduced at the beginning combined with the fast pacing made it really hard to put this book down.

Anyhow I ate this book in literally one sitting because I was in the mood to be freaked out and it delivered tremendously. It’s definitely plot focused and while we do get to know about Claire’s past, I never felt close to her, and she often annoyed me. Tammy’s review put this one on my radar, I don’t read a lot of sci-fi horror but I really like dual-timelines and it sounds very interesting to me. Snap off a piece or lose too many screws and it’s a whole operation to get replacements all the way out here at the edge of the solar system. Torn between her desire to lead a normal life and the pressure from the Center to continue her work tracking down killers, Violet’s world starts to unravel…and some of her most carefully guarded secrets are exposed.

That the book fell short of them has more to do with me and my feelings on the different direction the story took in the second half, which I felt stole something away from the creeping horror. She chose to set the novel in space, as "space is just an excellent setting for amping up tension and making the situation more difficult for our characters. This is one of those time-warp books—the ones where you look away from the clock, then look back and it’s suddenly way past your bedtime. The results are always the same: the visions, pain, and memory loss are likely psychological, not physical in origin.

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