From Goodreads: 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.
This review is spoiler free!
When Claire Kovalik and her crew are finishing up their final mission together at the outer corners of charted space, they pick up a strange distress signal. After investigating it, they realize it's a signal coming from the Aurora luxury space liner, which had been lost in space for over 20 years. When they head aboard to investigate, they are met with scenes of frozen carnage, and can only guess as to what happened all those years ago and why.
Dead Silence was a fast paced horror sci-fi novel. While a standalone, it still created a developed world with an expansive, space opera feel. As a huge fan of space opera and horror, it was a blast to see the two combined in this book. S. A. Barnes creates an all too real hellscape of sinister mega corporations (one of my favorite sci-fi tropes!).
This novel will have you second guessing yourself, and it's fast pacing will have you turning pages to find the answers! I highly recommend this one!
~ Charlotte
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