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Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

99 reviews

brookey8888's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

Omg I really loved this. It was spooky and creepy, but I also feel in love with the characters and felt for them. It made me emotional at one point. Also there’s a bit of a romance and I ate it up, I loved it. This was such an interesting concept and so creepy and intriguing. I didn’t read the comparison and as I was reading I was like it’s like Titanic but in space and everyone losing it. I enjoyed reading this so much that I wanted to read it but I didn’t want it to end and I didn’t want anything to happen to the characters so I would post pone reading it. I’m so happy I read this and loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Mental illness, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Violence, Blood, Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

gondorgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Body horror, Death of parent, Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Cursing, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Torture

turtle_puff95's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Sooo... I really liked this. Psychological space thriller where a ragtag crew finds an abandoned cruise ship that's been missing for the last 20 years. With a hope of some fame and glory, they decide to board the ship and find something to take with them as a means of claiming their find. Things very quickly go very very wrong. They start hearing things. Seeing ghosts <Spoiler>And every last person on the ship is dead. I was kind of thinking it had to be some sort of alien virus that got inside peoples minds. Caused mass paranoia and suicide, or murderous tendencies. Everyone on that ship had killed someone or been killed because of it. Finding out near the end of the book that it was caused by a man made device, put into the ship by a competitive company trying to ruin the cruise experience for rich people, was pretty disappointing. It wasn't aliens. Just stupid corporate rich people. </Spoiler>
This ended up being a book I wouldn't read late at night. 
I didn't really care for the ending, I felt some of it was a bit cliche and like the epilogue was just a quick wrap up. This was a fun spooky book overall though if psychological space madness is something you like to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

haleybre's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death, Child death, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

stephjlw's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

ahhhhhhhhhh fuck.... 2.5 stars... 

the first 200 pages of this novel were fantastic. the atmosphere was amazing, the tension was high, the mystery was... mystery-ing. but then, a couple things happened.

one, I didn't like the explanation for why things on the Aurora were so fucked.

Spoiler

it wasn't aliens, and that made me mad

and thus the way the climax unfolded dissatisfied me and broke me out of the immersion. also, the swap in timeline/ place breaks the tension as well.

two, a lot of Claire's weird personal shit just doesn't get resolved. she still holds herself responsible for events that occurred when she was a literal child, AND she has a weird moral equivalency that decisions she made that had bad outcomes (she couldn't possibly have predicted) makes her as morally reprehensible as the corporation that intentionally acts maliciously and covers it up.... girl be so real right now you are not the same.

Spoiler

also ghosts are real I guess and Claire can see them but we have no explanation as to why??

I don't need characters to be THAT fleshed out in a horror novel. for me they need to exist enough on the page so that I can imagine myself in their shoes, and inside the scariness. However, if they have glaring delusions, I would like for those to be resolved by the novels end IF the book is aiming for a resolution. this novel was, it gives the characters an ending and arc. Claire, manages to do some dealing with her aversion to forming close relationships and you know.. wants to live. But those things I mentioned above were also significant to her character, and they were just left. Bothered me. Especially because the novel goes a timeless - corporations being evil route, which I support BUT the characters should probably honestly conceptualize themselves on the victim to complicit scale. Claire viewed herself as far more complicit in Verux's crimes than she had any business thinking, and that was delulu.

whateverrr, it's not that serious. also this is a very impressive debut novel, and I would definitely read whatever Barnes writes next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

mich3ll31221's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Blood, Genocide, Chronic illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Grief, Suicide, Gaslighting, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Car accident, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

darquedreamer's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

Let me begin by saying that I love horror. I grew up on Goosebumps. I am an avid hard horror gamer, and I've loved horror movies since I can remember.  I also love horror movies set in space, because, what's more terrifying than having something happen to you on a spaceship, in the middle of nowhere, that you can't escape? (Looking at you Ripley)

I love the thrill of the chills, but sometimes feeling those chills from books seems near impossible. Dead Silence not only ticked off the horror box, and the space setting box, but it also delivered on the thrills and chills. This is the first time I have really experienced those wickedly wonderful creepy feels while reading a horror novel. 

Barnes did an incredible job weaving in so many layers to the story and the characters. The details were vivid. The fear felt real, and the psychological mind games were quite intriguing. I got Ghosts of Mars, Ghost Ship, and Event Horizon vibes from the story, as well heavy influences from the story of the Titanic. So, needless to say, it was not only chilling, thrilling, and gripping, but it had plenty of emotional moments to really fly it home.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

kt_jams's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Gun violence and Suicidal thoughts

theebster's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Gun violence, Body horror, and Medical content

annaplatypus's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a true page-turner, the type of book where my eyes keep trying to skip ahead on the page because I'm so anxious to know what comes next. I loved the overall atmosphere of the creepy parts, the mystery, the suspense, and the unknown variable of not knowing what is real and what's imagined.

I did feel the ending fell a bit flat in comparison to the rest of the book; it was tied up quite neatly, almost too neatly to be satisfying. I especially felt the main character was lacking in development. Despite that, I liked it overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Death of parent