Reviewed by Christy
Claire Kovalik’s repair crew is on its last run before her role becomes obsolete, and she is subsequently unemployed. When her crew picks up a distress signal, Kovalik decides to investigate. After all, she’s in no hurry to return to Earth anyway.
To her utter disbelief, the signal is coming from the Aurora – a luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden voyage around the solar system some twenty years prior. This type of discovery could be a jackpot for Kovalik and her crew. They decide to board the Aurora in the hopes of finding out exactly what happened decades ago but, more importantly, they want to bring something back as proof of their excursion.
This is a well-paced “haunted house in space” story. I particularly loved the initial walk-through of the space-liner. It was so tense but in a delicious way that you kind of didn’t want to end. There was just no way of knowing what was around the next corner! It did remind me a lot of the movie Event Horizon. Even though I didn’t particularly like that movie, it did have an engaging premise much like Dead Silence. In general, I am not a big science fiction reader. However, I do think there is a book in every genre that will appeal to more than the genre’s core readers. This was that book for me.
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