Scan barcode
A review by ladytiara
Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan
4.0
Do you like old school soap opera plots? Or the show Revenge? Then Daughter of Deep Silence may be the book for you. It's the perfect summer beach read: a fast-paced page-turner about a young woman bent on revenge.
While on a cruise with her parents, 14-year-old Frances makes a new friend, Libby, and falls in love with a boy named Gray. What seems like an idyllic vacation turns into a nightmare when armed men storm the ship, kill the passengers, and sink the ship. Frances and Libby escape in a raft, but only Frances survives the week they spend in open water. When Frances is rescued, she learns that Gray and his father, a U.S. Senator, also survived the event, and they're claiming the ship went down because of a rogue wave. At the request of Libby's grieving father, Frances agrees to take on Libby's identity. Four years later, Libby/Frances goes to Libby's father's vacation home on an island in South Carolina to start her revenge plot against Gray and his father.
I read this book because I liked the author's Forest of Hands and Teeth zombie series, and although Daughter of Deep Silence is quite different, it's just as compelling as the zombie books. This book has many of the soap opera tropes that make the genre both ludicrous and awesome: a secret identity, a revenge plot, a creepy villain, and a Romeo/Juliet style forbidden romance. Yes, you'll have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit, but if you can get past that, Daughter of Deep Silence is a highly entertaining read. Beyond all the soapy goodness, it delves into some interesting ideas about identity. Frances leaves her old identity behind to become Libby, and she's done a pretty good job of pushing her own past away and making herself into her friend, but when she sees Gray again, it becomes harder to keep the Frances side of her personality under wraps. She's not Frances anymore, nor is she fully Libby.
Be warned: you may want to block out some uninterrupted time for this book. You won't want to be interrupted once you start it.
I received an ARC from Amazon Vine.
While on a cruise with her parents, 14-year-old Frances makes a new friend, Libby, and falls in love with a boy named Gray. What seems like an idyllic vacation turns into a nightmare when armed men storm the ship, kill the passengers, and sink the ship. Frances and Libby escape in a raft, but only Frances survives the week they spend in open water. When Frances is rescued, she learns that Gray and his father, a U.S. Senator, also survived the event, and they're claiming the ship went down because of a rogue wave. At the request of Libby's grieving father, Frances agrees to take on Libby's identity. Four years later, Libby/Frances goes to Libby's father's vacation home on an island in South Carolina to start her revenge plot against Gray and his father.
I read this book because I liked the author's Forest of Hands and Teeth zombie series, and although Daughter of Deep Silence is quite different, it's just as compelling as the zombie books. This book has many of the soap opera tropes that make the genre both ludicrous and awesome: a secret identity, a revenge plot, a creepy villain, and a Romeo/Juliet style forbidden romance. Yes, you'll have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit, but if you can get past that, Daughter of Deep Silence is a highly entertaining read. Beyond all the soapy goodness, it delves into some interesting ideas about identity. Frances leaves her old identity behind to become Libby, and she's done a pretty good job of pushing her own past away and making herself into her friend, but when she sees Gray again, it becomes harder to keep the Frances side of her personality under wraps. She's not Frances anymore, nor is she fully Libby.
Be warned: you may want to block out some uninterrupted time for this book. You won't want to be interrupted once you start it.
I received an ARC from Amazon Vine.