Synopsis
"Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.
What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right.
Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate." Via Good Reads
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Review
This book has my heart! It was my most anticipated release this year, and I am thrilled to tell you that it met every expectation I had and then some! I loved every moment of reading this, and I did not want the book to end.
Dead Silence is the perfect mix of science fiction and horror. While the summary says that it is a mix of Titanic and The Shining, I also noticed elements that reminded me of The Thing and Aliens. I won’t go into detail about what those elements are, but they were terrific and executed perfectly.
Claire is our main character and our only perspective. The cast of characters is diverse, and the secondary characters are as well developed as Claire. Claire can be an unreliable narrator at times, but overall, she was both interesting and likable.
We get to read from multiple timelines, which was interesting, and the way the book is formatted isn't confusing.
I loved that the author gave in-depth descriptions of the spaceship. You can visualize every detail. The Aurora provides an eerie atmosphere for the story, and the tragic background of the ship adds to the tension.
The twist was something I did not even consider and took the book to a place I did not expect but loved.
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