Dead Silence

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His short stories have appeared in a plethora of anthologies and his non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and CrimeReads. Authors always take a risk when they do things like that, whether the shift is in time, geography, characters, whatever.

To wrap this review up on a high note though, I really enjoyed Claire’s character development and journey.A Most-Anticipated Title in Bustle, i09 , LitHub, PopSugar , CrimeReads, BookRiot , GoodReads and more.

A recommendation with caveats, however; I have lasting trauma from the flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz, and I still remember jumping during Wait Until Dark when I was a teen, so your mileage will definitely vary. I'd read reviews raving about this book, so couldn't wait for it, having seen it compared to "ghost ship," "the shining," and "Titanic.

When the story opens it is revealed that she is days away from being made unemployed and, believing she has no future, is both an emotional wreck and contemplating suicide. However, this is no ordinary vessel: they find the Aurora, a renowned luxury space-liner that was packed with rich people, royalty, actors, famous athletes, and other assorted celebrities when it vanished into thin air two decades ago while on its on its maiden tour of the solar system. Claire is the captain of a small maintenance repair ship which travels the outer boundaries of known space, where she has spent her entire adult life, with rotating Firefly style motley crews. A. Barnes ended up being a huge letdown after all the reviews saying how scary it is, creepy, and being dubbed “the ultimate haunted house story in space” by critics.

the narrator of the story has a great voice, but when she tries to do male voices, or emotional ones or just pronounce hard 'P's like in the word 'up' I just got annoyed. For much of the time Barnes keeps the reader guessing on whether the disaster is caused by aliens, the supernatural or something else and there are plenty of breadcrumbs dropped along the way to make Dead Silence a relatively swift read, despite the extended descriptive lulls, and it is easy to get carried along by the sense of foreboding, strange noises, muffled voices and horrific blood patterns which decorate the walls. Barnes plays nicely on human fears of both madness and of ghosts, carefully blurring the line between science fiction and horror.Barnes is giving you Titanic but make it scary, she’s giving you Event Horizon, she’s giving you Ghost Ship; for real, this book will make your skin crawl. 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. My biggest issue though was the narrator SHOUTING every time the story had emotional or scary dialog! It reminded be too much of Event Horizon I would start thinking of scenes from that movie when I was reading this book at some scenes that were close. What they find is the Aurora – a luxury cruise spaceship that disappeared twenty years ago on its maiden voyage.