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Dead Silence
by S.A. Barnes
Claire Kovalik is on her last mission. Her job is being replaced by a new machine, and her attempt to launch her own transportation vessel was denied. When her ship's beacon picks up a distress call, Claire and her crew go to investigate. They find a ship thought to be lost to space 20 years ago called Aurora. A luxury space-liner equipped with highly valuable items, Aurora could be the answer to Claire and her crew's prayers of what comes next. But once they board Aurora, it's clear that all isn't as it should be. The crew is seeing things that aren't there, the bodies of the passengers show that they died in brutal, sudden ways. What they thought could be there chance at a new life could end up being the death of them all...
DEAD SILENCE had me utterly captivated. When we first meet Claire, it's clear that she's had a rough life. She's the sole survivor of an illness that wiped out everyone on her ship growing up, including her mother. She was raised under the 'charity' of a mega-corporation that wants to save face more than it wants to do good. And now, the job she finds the most comfort in is ending, with no clear path forward that doesn't make her want to give up. It's clear she isn't well, but it takes a good portion of the book to figure out if she's unreliable or not (or if she is, how unreliable). I loved her character arc in fighting for herself and her future, even in the face of deathly odds. I also adored the side romance between her and one of her crew.
I love space horror involving a mystery ship, and DEAD SILENCE nailed the eerie, haunting mood of a ship whose passengers died to an unknown cause. Each found corpse brought new terrors, and I stayed up fully past my bedtime to keep reading to figure out what happened to them and why.
A bit of Sunshine meets Aliens meets Into the Drowning Deep, DEAD SILENCE is a frighteningly immersive space horror that slowly wraps itself around your throat and squeezes. S.A. Barnes is a master of tension and mind-fuckery, and I can't wait for Barnes's next book.
DEAD SILENCE had me utterly captivated. When we first meet Claire, it's clear that she's had a rough life. She's the sole survivor of an illness that wiped out everyone on her ship growing up, including her mother. She was raised under the 'charity' of a mega-corporation that wants to save face more than it wants to do good. And now, the job she finds the most comfort in is ending, with no clear path forward that doesn't make her want to give up. It's clear she isn't well, but it takes a good portion of the book to figure out if she's unreliable or not (or if she is, how unreliable). I loved her character arc in fighting for herself and her future, even in the face of deathly odds. I also adored the side romance between her and one of her crew.
I love space horror involving a mystery ship, and DEAD SILENCE nailed the eerie, haunting mood of a ship whose passengers died to an unknown cause. Each found corpse brought new terrors, and I stayed up fully past my bedtime to keep reading to figure out what happened to them and why.
A bit of Sunshine meets Aliens meets Into the Drowning Deep, DEAD SILENCE is a frighteningly immersive space horror that slowly wraps itself around your throat and squeezes. S.A. Barnes is a master of tension and mind-fuckery, and I can't wait for Barnes's next book.