“I don’t know how to tell them so they’ll believe me, but it only gets worse from here.”

“Dead Silence” was like if “Event Horizon” and “Ghost Ship” had a baby and then that baby had a baby with “Thirteen Ghosts”. I could absolutely see a movie version of this probably not doing super well with mainstream audiences but landing forever in the hearts of sci-fi horror fans.

The writing was clunky but not in a permanently distracting way. The beginning use of “then and now” narratives took some punch away from the story; it added some heavy-handed, too obvious tension to an already tense story. However, I think in the end it did work out for the story and where the story led.

I really love a book that makes me say, “Oh shit,” a lot. Great pacing kept me flipping pages well into the wee hours, desperate to know how it ended. Really, really vivid imagery kept me hooked til the very end. Gory, gruesome, spine-tingling fun to be had by everyone!

4/5 for the aforementioned clunkiness and some continuation errors that took me away from the heart of the story: scarin’ me silly!