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Dead Silence

Written by: S.A. Barnes
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
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"The audiobook read by Lauren Ezzo makes for compulsive, edge-of-seat listening." - Buzzfeed

"Ezzo's dark tone and emotional connection terrify and comfort listeners in equal measure. Not for the faint of heart."-AudioFile Magazine

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.

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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everything about this book is so good, just could not stop listening to it

totally loved it

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Creepy, engaging, twisty story. The narration is well done and engaging too. There is a lot of changes in the volume though so it does require some management of volume during intense parts.

Delightfully terrifying

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A bit predictable but great heroine. Didn't figure out the mystery beforehand so the end was lots of fun.

Cross between Alien and Event Horizon

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The Narrator made the novel much more bearable. I don't think I would have finished reading if the inflections and nuances weren't there with a physical read. It was an interesting start that quickly lost its edge.

disappointingly average

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While the premise and some of the ghosts are interesting, the plot was repetitive, the characters are unlikable squabbling jackasses, the main character most of all (she's wishy-washy, needlessly wanna be tough prickly, self-pitying and just kind of a mess) and there's a needless romance shoe horned in. I finished it out of spite because I wasted a credit on it from all the good reviews other horror readers have given it on social media as "genuinely frightning". I didn't even find it vaguely creepy and had to listen to it on double speed to get through it. this would have been better if it ended at the halfway point and was a novella in a horror anthology.

Don't understand why this book has such a high rating

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