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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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

 Adventure Horror Science Fiction Space Exploration
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Except that feels like an incomplete description. It's a brilliant science fiction mystery with a dash of horror and a compelling cast of characters. Great narrator voice and performance!

The Shining Meets Alien

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Gripping from start to finish, very well written and Lauren Ezzo performs this narration with real emotion.

Excellent

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Brilliant, fast paced and creepy story which would make an awsome movie. really enjoyed it.

Great space horror

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I enjoyed this but it did take some time to get past the narration. Lauren Ezzo approaches the narration like a stream of thought, imagine Nicholas Cage at his most Cage level. I had to admit i found it to be distracting and difficult listen until about half way through when i just accepted the style,
The story itself is good, with flashes of humour and an unnerving sense of dread that build. Some classic ghost story tropes are used to great affect and some of the observations made are quite clever if at times a tad teen angsty.
The main character is a complex one and at times feels very whiney and pathetic, but if you take her story arc into consideration he behaviour becomes more understandable. I felt for the first half of the story i wanted her head to explode, but by the end i had warmed to her.
The book feels like the Sixth Sense meets The shinny for the My Chemical Romance generation, nothing here is going to blow your mind but as a background listen its alright.

Sixth Sense meets The Shinning

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nothing, good book all round. I hope there are more like this to listen to. the narrator was really good, even if at times Abit shrill it made it very atmospheric.

great story, great narrator

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