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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
“I don’t know how to tell them so they’ll believe me, but it only gets worse from here.”
“Dead Silence” was like if “Event Horizon” and “Ghost Ship” had a baby and then that baby had a baby with “Thirteen Ghosts”. I could absolutely see a movie version of this probably not doing super well with mainstream audiences but landing forever in the hearts of sci-fi horror fans.
The writing was clunky but not in a permanently distracting way. The beginning use of “then and now” narratives took some punch away from the story; it added some heavy-handed, too obvious tension to an already tense story. However, I think in the end it did work out for the story and where the story led.
I really love a book that makes me say, “Oh shit,” a lot. Great pacing kept me flipping pages well into the wee hours, desperate to know how it ended. Really, really vivid imagery kept me hooked til the very end. Gory, gruesome, spine-tingling fun to be had by everyone!
4/5 for the aforementioned clunkiness and some continuation errors that took me away from the heart of the story: scarin’ me silly!
“Dead Silence” was like if “Event Horizon” and “Ghost Ship” had a baby and then that baby had a baby with “Thirteen Ghosts”. I could absolutely see a movie version of this probably not doing super well with mainstream audiences but landing forever in the hearts of sci-fi horror fans.
The writing was clunky but not in a permanently distracting way. The beginning use of “then and now” narratives took some punch away from the story; it added some heavy-handed, too obvious tension to an already tense story. However, I think in the end it did work out for the story and where the story led.
I really love a book that makes me say, “Oh shit,” a lot. Great pacing kept me flipping pages well into the wee hours, desperate to know how it ended. Really, really vivid imagery kept me hooked til the very end. Gory, gruesome, spine-tingling fun to be had by everyone!
4/5 for the aforementioned clunkiness and some continuation errors that took me away from the heart of the story: scarin’ me silly!
I'm not sure what it is that didn't fully work for me but the end/ explanation of what's been going on felt rushed. What happened in the MC's past is also still unclear and her is never fully explained. Plus, her woe is me-ness reaaallllyyy brought down the book - it was understandable at the beginning but truly over the top at the end.
Spoiler
"I see dead people" thing
Someone please explain the hype around this book, because I do NOT see it.
Where was the "unspeakable horror"? Is the horror in the room with us now? Help, I am so confused.
The romance aspect was so wildly unnecessary and annoying. This book failed the Bechdel test so hard, it might as well have been a Harlequin romance with a side of spaceship.
All the characters suck. The narrator mourns her colleagues that die, but can't even name non-work related things about them, making it feel aggressively impersonal. Most of the book is Claire crying about what a bad team lead she is and how much she wants to bone Kane.
Barnes somehow took an extremely interesting and potentially awesome plot and made it nearly unbearable. Even the "scary" parts are suddenly explained away by (spoiler) corporate greed. Why does Kovalik even have hallucinations? What did I miss here? I'm mad. This book sucked.
Where was the "unspeakable horror"? Is the horror in the room with us now? Help, I am so confused.
The romance aspect was so wildly unnecessary and annoying. This book failed the Bechdel test so hard, it might as well have been a Harlequin romance with a side of spaceship.
All the characters suck. The narrator mourns her colleagues that die, but can't even name non-work related things about them, making it feel aggressively impersonal. Most of the book is Claire crying about what a bad team lead she is and how much she wants to bone Kane.
Barnes somehow took an extremely interesting and potentially awesome plot and made it nearly unbearable. Even the "scary" parts are suddenly explained away by (spoiler) corporate greed. Why does Kovalik even have hallucinations? What did I miss here? I'm mad. This book sucked.
Absolut fesselnde Story! Düster, spannend, unheimlich und sehr gut erzählt.
Die "Auflösung" bzw. das Ende haben mir allerdings nicht so gefallen. Hier hätte ich mir mehr "Alien" Vibes gewünscht.
Trotzdem gibts eine Leseempfehlung.
Die "Auflösung" bzw. das Ende haben mir allerdings nicht so gefallen. Hier hätte ich mir mehr "Alien" Vibes gewünscht.
Trotzdem gibts eine Leseempfehlung.
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Man that main character was insufferable. The amount of "everything is my fault," from the first page to the last, really ruined what was otherwise a fairly fun (for horror) time. The explanation of things near the end, the cause of the tragedy, was kind of thin for me, but whatever. I still had fun. But my god that main character...
A ghost ship, a salvage crew, and unspeakable horrors await…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
I was really into this for the first half and dying to know the mystery, but then the unreliable narrator trope became so dominant the story became annoying. And the reveal of what happened to the ship/passengers was incredibly anticlimactic.