pickled_books 's review for:

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

2.5

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This was… ok. Maybe not being a fan of the narrator didn’t help with liking the book a whole lot, but I also felt like SA Barnes kept ending chapters on a cliffhanger only to quickly resolve the issue in the first paragraph of the following chapter which was annoying. Plus, I felt that she was too obvious about the “plot twist” by drawing direct attention to specific lines that were meant to hint at it, instead of allowing the reader to pick up on them. (spoilers below):

One specific moment is when Claire is getting ready to go back on to the ship with the soldiers and Max tells the soldiers “Thank you for your service” and instead of letting the moment pass Claire has to directly acknowledge that its something you only say towards someone about to die. It’s one of those moments where I thought ‘How can she not see that they’re obviously going to destroy the Aurora’?

So.. yea. An ok audiobook to zone out to while I’m at work. But not one of my favorites.