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The Silence - Tim Lebbon
The Silence
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In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. Deaf for many years, Ally... show more
In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death.

Deaf for many years, Ally knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can sit out the plague. But will it ever end? And what kind of world will be left?
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781781168813 (1781168814)
ASIN: 1781168814
Publisher: Titan
Pages no: 363
Edition language: English
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runner
runner rated it
3.0 Family love as humanity is threatened
Vesps, part reptile, part bird from the dawn of time are released when an ancient cave system is penetrated. They fly, they are blind but have heightened senses and can detect motion from the slightest noise. When they attack they are a killing machine and spawn new creatures in the bloodied bodies ...
Book Journeys
Book Journeys rated it
5.0 Sound Means Lunch
Tim Lebbon will show you a world unraveling when blind creatures are released from an isolated cave system. Freed into a ecosystem with no natural predators, they spread and breed unchecked. Can you be silent to stay alive?
Hooked on Books
Hooked on Books rated it
4.0 They Hunt by Sound...
Omg I am so pissed! I just want to throw this book right now. The story was perfect up until the last few pages and it just abruptly ended. I absolutely despise books with open endings! It wouldn't be so bad if this was the beginning of a series but everything I've seen points toward this being a st...
Sarah's Library
Sarah's Library rated it
5.0 The Silence by Tim Lebbon
SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!!!15/7 - Absolutely, terrifyingly fantastic!!!! So realistic that it felt like I was reading someone’s memoirs of the time when the vesps came rather than a tale imagined by a very creative, but twisted author. The monsters he’s created here are truly horrifying a...
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