Reviews

The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

the_red_one's review

informative reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

elsie2110's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

remia1996's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

kitkat2712's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

hestia_nl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

auri_underthing's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

the Strength. of Deafening. Silence. 

Wow! Seeing the world from the perspective of a deaf child was very interesting. Very nail biting!

jmj697mn's review against another edition

3.0

This seemed like two different books. The first 1/2 to 2/3rds was fantastic. The atmosphere was lovely--I felt myself shivering a few times as if I could almost feel that bitter, bitter cold. The plot was suspenseful and interesting. But that ending though.....c'mon! I was really, really disappointed. The first 225 pages get 5 stars--the last 75 pages get one star.

beastreader's review against another edition

1.0

I won a copy of this book. I was excited to read it. In fact, I was ready to settle in and get lost into the story. The book started out ok. I was not really feeling the characters other then maybe Ruby due to her innocence. However the Alaskan wilderness as a backdrop lent a good scene for this story. This is part of what drew me to this book in the first place. Yet as I got further into the story the characters just could not live up to the beautiful Alaskan wilderness. Plus, it was pretty obvious where the story was going regarding the disappearance of Matt. Which when I found myself more skimming the story then actually reading it, I did jump ahead to the last third of the story. Again there was no real surprise about the ending. Sadly this book just was not for me.

erincataldi's review against another edition

5.0

This one started off a trifle slow, but thoroughly peaked my interest 50 pages in and then I could not put the damn thing down. I thought it was just a suspense novel, but it turned out to be so much more than that, although I don't want to divulge too much and ruin the twist at the end.

Yasmin and her ten year old deaf daughter have just flown from England to Alaska to meet her husband and when they arrive they are giving awful news. The small village that Matt was staying at to film the wildlife has burnt down killing everyone it including her husband. Unable to believe the news she is convinced she must go to Norther Alaska and find her husband because the state troopers won't search for him since they believe he is dead. Armed with only her guts and her wildly smart and mature ten year old, they convince a trucker headed north to let them tag along for several hundred miles. When he is taken ill and rushed to a hospital, Yasmin uses her engineering degree to drive the rig up the ice highways to search for Matt. She soon realizes that it's not just her and her daughter on the road, someone is following her. What is trying to stay hidden out in this barren hellishly cold landscape? Is her husband even still alive?

It's chilling (literally, you get cold while reading this; the descriptions of the weather conditions are spot on), riveting, and you can't help but rooting for the mother daughter duo even in face of the horrible odds. A masterful book and I look forward to reading more by this author.

I received this book for free from Blogging for Books in return for my honest, unbiased opinion.

mister_goldfish's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5