Mock Kirkus Review: The Silence by Tim Lebbon

The Silence by Tim Lebbon

A dark, intense, and compelling novel, creatures from a cave system sweeps the Earth, leaving only those who live in silence to survive.

A new cave system was discovered in the small country of Moldova, but when explorers come back on their harnesses a mass of blood and tangled limbs, quickly the world changes. As this event unfolds, Ally the main character watches everything from the comfort of her home in England, with all of Europe separating her from the disaster. Little does she know, the threat and need to survive would soon be upon her and her family. In a story that is a told in alternating point of views between first and third, readers are introduced to the mind of Ally and her experience as someone who doesn’t have hearing because of a previous accident, as well as her family. The point of view gives the book it’s thriller induced horror feeling that keeps the reader reading on to find out the fate of the family as well as the world. Everyone must adapt to not making a sound, for fear that the terrifying “vesps” will attack, kill, and possibly lay their eggs within their corpse. The “vesps” as disturbing and unsettling as they were, it was the people who were left behind that were just as dangerous. “I am the Reverend, the note said in a spidery scrawl. Would you like to join my flock of the Hushed?” The multiple layers of danger lurking behind every corner leave you gripping your seats and full of horror waiting for the fate of mankind.

A horrifying, chilling dystopia world where silence is both life and death, Lebbon brings the story to life. 

Book Info:

Pub Date: April, 14^th 2015                           
Page Count: 363 pages                             
Review Posted: Feb 12^th, 2016
ISBN: 9781781168813                                  
Publisher: Titan Books