The Silence is an apocalyptic thriller that follows a teenaged girl named Ally, who was left deaf as a child due to an accident, and her family's survival in a world forced into silence. Ally, her parents Hue and Kelly, her brother Jude, and grandmother Lynne have an advantage in this new world because they know sign language.
Like many horror stories, it begins with people going into a place that they should never enter. In this case, it’s a self contained ecosystem in an enclosed set of caves. Within those caves is a ravenous creature that they call vesps. The vesps are a weird bat like creature that are blind and hunt by sound alone. The creatures breed and multiply horrifically fast, and mature to adults in mere days, and have a gluttonous appetite and attack in swarms reducing humans and animals to bones. Within weeks of their escape, entire countries have been destroyed and humanity is facing extinction.
Ally and her family leave their home and flee across the country to try and reach safety at a remote estate in Scotland. I had a really tough time putting this book down so that I could go to sleep. The story was engrossing, and there were so many threats to their lives other than the vesps.
I know that this has been made into a Netflix movie, but I haven’t seen it yet. Not only because I have to read the book first, but mainly because I cannot watch horror movies. Have you read the book and seen the movie? What do you think? Leave me a comment or send me a message!
I give this novel 4 stars!
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| Release date: 4/14/15 |
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