Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right. Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.
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- classic case of an unreliable narrator: she knows she has a history of seeing things; part way through the book she just accepts she can see ghosts?? = annoying
- also kind of wanted to know more about the childhood trauma of being a lone survivor?
- the structure of the book was annoying, there until starts getting loopy, then Amnesia so ‘we must return’... eh. big decrease of tension there at the midpoint
- Kane was very conveniently going catatonic and magically recovers; the business guy conveniently goes mad in 2 seconds
- never got a great read on Max, therefore I did not feel betrayed when he was BBEG
- almost would have preferred a supernatural cause (over ‘device’)
- was scary / had tense moments, but was generally annoying to me
- Ben said it sounded creepily like the video game Dead Space
- it definitely felt High stakes, claustrophobic, creepy; the atmosphere was 10 out of 10
- the romance felt pointless, the shift to corporate politics was a bad decision imho
- was creepy and had my heart rate up a couple of times, more the jump scare type
- Claire even had ‘visions’ of the past? Psychic?? = weird
- some reviewers say this is ‘not a horror book’, but it felt like one to me? it was a thriller with horror elements set in space?
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