Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes -- Restarting November 10th 2022

[Saar The Book owl]

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.

[Robin]

Hi! Would you mind if I joined in for this one?

[Laura]

Roe wrote: "Hi! Would you mind if I joined in for this one?"

I don't mind if you join! The more the merrier in my opinion!

[Robin]

great!! :D

[Brooke]

1%
(view spoiler)[ already seeing dead people, a good start to a book! (hide spoiler)]

12%
(view spoiler)[ Oh she's going to go outside in space without a tether!? very brave, but my intrusive thoughts would tell me to just let go and float. (hide spoiler)]

[Brooke]

15%
(view spoiler)[ This is the second time the MC was the lone survival of an event, suspicious. i wouldn't be going on any more missions with her, thou think she changed her name to cover her tracks, which is even more suspicious (hide spoiler)]

22%
(view spoiler)[ The ship had a fancy real person chef but also should have a food printer in case of emergency, so they some maybe survived the crash but without the printer, starved (also star trek used a printer didn't they, or maybe another space show/movie has the printer) (hide spoiler)]

[Brooke]

27%
(view spoiler)[ All the bodies have cuts and bruises, someone shut the engine down, no signs of an actual disaster, so something else is the cause behind this, wonder what it is (hide spoiler)]

33%
(view spoiler)[ Ohh she kissed him. She was alone in that ship for a while month, wow, pretty sure i'd see things after that as well, it had to be hard to be alone with all the dead bodies and silence. (hide spoiler)]

[Brooke]

35%
(view spoiler)[ Oh no a dog is on board 😔 i do not want to know if the dog didn't make it, i know it didn't, but i don't need to know :( (hide spoiler)]

40%
(view spoiler)[ Why is there a naked lady hiding under the famous persons bed?? (hide spoiler)]

43%
(view spoiler)[ Oh the famous girls mom is one of those mom, slapped her kid and is all like "how dare you risk what I did for you" *eye roll* (hide spoiler)]

[Brooke]

Roe wrote: "Hi! Would you mind if I joined in for this one?"

Hope you like it as much as i did :D

[Jenn]

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Date changed. Restarting November 10th 2022. Happy Reading ☺

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[Aneta]

Chapter 5
(view spoiler)[This is interesting start. I like that we kind of know the ending of their search of the Aurora. It adds a sense of dread for me because I'm going to be expecting to go to hell all the time. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

I might try and jump on this BR as it's been on my tbr for a while and I'm sure my library has a copy :)

[Dannii]

Scrap the last message, the audio is on Scribd so I'm starting it now :)

[Aneta]

Chapter 13
(view spoiler)[There was a lot of violence on Aurora. We still don't know really happen but we have a lot of clues! I have some theories especially about the woman with a blindfold and earplugs. (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

14%

(view spoiler)[I am really liking this so far. I am curious about Claire’s past. About what really happened at the outpost. I know that she was the only survivor and there was some sort of virus but we don’t really know more. It was clearly traumatic. It sucks that her life has been so awful since it all went down.

Voller is an asshole. I really don’t like him.

Kane seems to care about Claire but she is trying to keep everyone at a distance.

Lourdes seems nice. Innocent.

Nysus is a total nerd. I like him.

All of their observations about the Aurora from the outside are so ominous. It really makes me want to know what happened. (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

Aneta wrote: "Chapter 5
[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[I was actually really surprised that it started out the way that it did. I makes me think that maybe the story doesn't turn out the way that the intro makes it seem. I do like the switch between past and present though. (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

Dannii wrote: "Scrap the last message, the audio is on Scribd so I'm starting it now :)"

Yay!

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

27%

(view spoiler)[All of the conditions inside the ship are super creepy. The doors that were barricaded from the outside, the hundred or so floating people in the atrium with battle wounds, all the blood smeared everywhere and the written messages on the doors and walls. I can’t fathom what could have caused all that other than some space plague that affected their minds. I am so curious!

The thing with the black box is weird. I don’t think that I completely understand what they were trying to tell Claire. So someone “brought” a huge ass spaceship out to the edge of space and then turned off everything and killed everyone? That can’t be right because then what about all the blood and carnage? Unless they were “brought” out there after all the carnage had already started? But then who would do that and how? It’s all so mysterious. (hide spoiler)]

[Aneta]

Chapter 20
(view spoiler)[Okay, so the begining wasn't really the end! And Claire doesn't even know what really happend! (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

54%

(view spoiler)[This story is so compelling. I am on the edge of my seat trying to figure out waht happened on the Aurora and what is happening now. All these people seeing hallucinations? Not a coincidence. The woman with the blindfold and the makeshift ear plugs is making more sense. (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

Aneta wrote: "Chapter 13
[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[I am trying to piece the clues together. I still don't really have any sound theories yet though. (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

75%

(view spoiler)[It’s clear that they think Claire killed her crew and that she is crazy. I really hate the way that everyone is treating her. Especially Reed.

Going back to the Aurora just seems like a bad idea. I honestly think that they are just trying to blow up the ship and destroy all evidence of whatever happened on board. Probably with Claire on it. It would explain all of the explosives and ammunition and why they didn’t have any recovery items for bringing back bodies.

I honestly still have no idea what the mystery is. Claire can see the dead people attached to other living humans and that seems odd. She can also see dead people that have a connection to her surroundings like the suicide patient at the place she was being held. So she sees dead people but I haven’t pieced together how everything else plays into that or what could have caused the massacre. (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

Aneta wrote: "Chapter 20
[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[I know! I wondered if the author was going to do something like that. And since Claire was knocked in the head she doesn't even really know what happened. I don't know how she wouldn't remember how she got in the escape pod though. Unless maybe Kane put her in there? (hide spoiler)]

[Aneta]

♛Vanessa♛ wrote: "75%
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(view spoiler)[The way they treat her is terrible! But if I thought someone killed several people I don't think I would be nice either. So I mostly get it.

Claire is a little bit like that kid from The Sixth Sense movie ("I see dead people."). She see a lot of dead people! (hide spoiler)]

[Aneta]

Finished
(view spoiler)[Max is a bastard! He would kill so many people (and he already did if this tell us anything)!

I'm glad they find Kane but I'm sad about Nysus (he was so nice). I actually cried when Claire found Nysus wrapped in sheets.

I don't really like "it's all in your head" trope and especially in horror. I would like a little bit more paranormal in it but I (surprisingly) didn't mind this trope in here so much. I'm just not sure who to rate this book yet so I have to sit on it for a little bit. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

Aneta wrote: "Chapter 5
[spoilers removed]"

I loved how this begun. Everything about it was super intense and eerie!

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

Aneta wrote: "Finished
Max is a bastard! He would kill so many people (and he already did if this tell us anything)!

I'm glad they find Kane but I'm sad about Nysus (he was so nice). I actually cried when Clai..."

(view spoiler)[I felt the exact same way. I was expecting or hoping for something paranormal or extraterrestrial or something along those lines. The big reveal felt a little anticlimactic but at the same time I liked it in a way. It's hard to explain, I guess.

Max really was the worst. I am glad that he got what was coming to him. And I am glad the company did too.

I was also sad about Nysus. I adored him. (hide spoiler)]

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

Finished!

(view spoiler)[I kind of explained my thoughts in my last comment when I replied to you. I was kind of hoping for a little more with the epilogue. Two years had passed and Kane and Claire aren't even a couple? I guess they would have had a lot of recovering to do after all that but still. Two years?

And it never explained how or why Clarie could see dead people. It isn't part of the device on the Aurora. This is all her. She sees dead people relative to locations and those around other living people. I wish that the author would have gone into that instead of leaving it all up in the air. I needed to know the details! =P (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

Aneta wrote: "Chapter 13
[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[Their exploration of it was pretty scary to read! Especially with the corpses flying past them and the mysteries about why the entire thing shut down. The voices calling and the images of her mother only added to this. It's like both the reader and the characters are being called to question what is real right now. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

♛Vanessa♛ wrote: "14%

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(view spoiler)[I'm on chapter thirteen right now and Claire's past is as intriguing as the current mysteries. There is definitely more than just her being the sole survivor of a viral outbreak. She seems to have seen her mother after her supposed death and maybe there's a link between what occurred there and here. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

♛Vanessa♛ wrote: "54%

[spoilers removed]"

Same here! (view spoiler)[Claire seemed determined to blame herself for dragging them into this and that she was unfit captain because her her history. I'm glad that Kane managed to convince her that the ship logs showed others were experiencing the same things in the past, as well as that the crew were all seeing things now, and they she wasn't untrustworthy. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

♛Vanessa♛ wrote: "75%

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(view spoiler)[In the best possible way, reading this book was driving me crazy because I had no answers throughout the course of it. Everyone saw things on the ship but Claire seems to always see the dead and her visions differ to their hallucinations.

I didn't think their return was to save any remaining souls either, not with how shifty they were being. Claire could see they were keeping things from her and didn't have the proper equipment to return either the living or the dead. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

Aneta wrote: "Finished
..."

(view spoiler)[I agree with your thoughts. It felt super paranormal throughout and super abstract. I couldn't trust anything and it was so compelling because of that. I debated for a little while but for how much I loved every part of this and for how much I thought about the ending after I'd completed it, it became a five star read for me. (hide spoiler)]