A review by wordswritinstarlight
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Did not finish book. Stopped at 63%.

I actually love the book and I’m getting it in non-audio format to finish it, because 100% of my complaints are the reader.  I’ve never used the word “overacting” for an audiobook before but this is fucking unbearable; the reader is serving soap opera distress in every chapter and it’s driving me insane.  I was able to kind of ignore it until things started to get really high tension around the halfway mark, and then I broke almost immediately.  I guess if you’re someone who isn’t bothered by hours and hours of someone sounding like they’re on the brink of hysterics doesn’t bother you, it’s probably a perfectly good reading, but I would love to actually enjoy this book rather than listening to it in fifteen minute segments before I get so annoyed I have to turn it off.  It might make me sound like an unsympathetic bitch, but I truly do not care how much of a horror novel you are in, if you’re crying every single chapter, I’m gonna need you to get it the fuck together.  I’m out on this audiobook and getting the text version.