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redrobot's review against another edition
4.0
Hard to put down, kept me turning the pages! Great twists and turns, especially near the end. Loved the husband and wife hitman team, enough that I'd love to read a sequel focused on them.
dotorsojak's review against another edition
3.0
3 stars firm
Pretty good. This one deploys not one but two assassins, a man and a woman, and they are married to each other. Also this book has a great last line.
On the other hand, I'm not wild about the mystery
Pretty good. This one deploys not one but two assassins, a man and a woman, and they are married to each other. Also this book has a great last line.
On the other hand, I'm not wild about the mystery
wrxtacy's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
CAWPILE score: 6.86 (48/70, Good-Very Good)
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jad377's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.5
aspygirlsmom_1995's review
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
gracetimpe's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
i cannot tell a lie it really pulled me in but god that ending was awful :/ also why did the author act like i would forget every character’s name every time he started a new paragraph???
kerrynicole72's review against another edition
4.0
I'd never read anything by this author, but I liked this book very much. It was a little slow to start, but then I couldn't put it down....
mrsboyko's review against another edition
4.0
Pretty good story. I always find it interesting to read books that are a bit older. This one is copyright 2007 so they're still talking about pay phones and phone books.
imbookingit's review against another edition
4.0
Silence was an enjoyable thriller, with a few annoyances in the female characters.
Thomas Perry is known for writing stories about someone leading people into hiding and into new lives in his Jane Whitefield books. Silence has an interesting twist-- Jack Till coached Wendy Harper in the skills she would need to successfully disappear 6 years ago. Now, he needs to find her, and must unravel the steps she took.
The book switches between views of Jack (& Wendy) and that of Sylvie (& Paul) Turner, the ballroom dancing killers for hire, with occasional looks at other characters. For the most part, the characters were interesting and well written, but I had an issue with each of the two primary female characters.
Sylvie married a killer for hire, and became his partner in his business as well. In the middle of a job (which isn't going well), she keeps worrying about why he doesn't show her more affection, does he still love her, is she losing her beauty as she's aging, and so on. This was distracting and unnecessary.
Wendy's actions are shaped by her falling in love with Jack during their short acquaintance, when he was teaching her how to escape the person trying to kill her. In spite of this, she marries a man with children, putting them all in danger. I wanted to think she was a different sort of person.
There was a twist at the end I didn't see coming, that answered the minor problems I had with the plot up until that point. The book kept me listening, and that's the biggest test.
Thomas Perry is known for writing stories about someone leading people into hiding and into new lives in his Jane Whitefield books. Silence has an interesting twist-- Jack Till coached Wendy Harper in the skills she would need to successfully disappear 6 years ago. Now, he needs to find her, and must unravel the steps she took.
The book switches between views of Jack (& Wendy) and that of Sylvie (& Paul) Turner, the ballroom dancing killers for hire, with occasional looks at other characters. For the most part, the characters were interesting and well written, but I had an issue with each of the two primary female characters.
Sylvie married a killer for hire, and became his partner in his business as well. In the middle of a job (which isn't going well), she keeps worrying about why he doesn't show her more affection, does he still love her, is she losing her beauty as she's aging, and so on. This was distracting and unnecessary.
Wendy's actions are shaped by her falling in love with Jack during their short acquaintance, when he was teaching her how to escape the person trying to kill her. In spite of this, she marries a man with children, putting them all in danger. I wanted to think she was a different sort of person.
There was a twist at the end I didn't see coming, that answered the minor problems I had with the plot up until that point. The book kept me listening, and that's the biggest test.
zade's review against another edition
4.0
I don't think Thomas Perry is capable of writing a bad book. Although I'm particularly partial to his Jane Whitefield series--I could have kissed him when he brought her back after *years*--I've enjoyed many of his other novels as well. Silence is a good read and offers the usual benefits of a Perry thriller. There is a lot of running, hiding, and outwitting bad guys, including a lot of tips that make you think Perry probably would be pretty good at hiding people in real life. I have no idea if that is true or not, but he is certainly convincing. Also typical for Perry, his bad guys, especially the assassins, are interesting characters who make up a good part of the story. A lot of what he's done in this novel shows up in his other books. The hiding people bit is straight out Jane Whitefield, and this is at least the second pretty blond-haired assassin who's obsessed with her looks and resents being dominated by her male partner/lover. The characters are different enough that it's not a pure rehash, but it is a repeating theme. The primary good guy, Till, does not seem to be as strong a presence in this book as one might expect from the protagonist of what looks like a series. He's there and he's kind of interesting, but he doesn't capture the imagination in the way that Jane Whitefield does. By the end of the book, I liked him, but in a superficial way. I liked his ethics and his focus, but couldn't say I really knew him. Despite that bit of opacity, I would definitely read another book featuring him, if only to find out more about him, to make him rounder. And of course, Perry always delivers in the pacing and action of his books. Yes, there are elements that recur from book to book, but really, who cares? His books are fun and they keep you turning the pages when you really ought to be doing other things--like being a responsible grown-up.