The Silence
Tim Lebbon
Titan Books, Apr 14 2015, $14.95
www.titanbooks.com
ISBN: 9781781168813
The Discovery Channel covers live a team exploring a cave in
Northern Moldova. However, while on the
air the scientific expedition turns tragic when an unknown predatory species of
apparently the bat family attacks the crew leaving several humans dead to the
horror of the TV and Internet audience.
Not long after that tragedy, these ravenous cave dwellers leave
their subterranean home with a vengeance for the surface. Using an intensified highly powerful sonar
sense, the hordes spread across Europe killing anything in their path. World leaders and the science community are
at loss as to how to end the terror before a new species takes over the top of
the food chain. As mankind teeters on
the brink of extinction, a deaf English teenager who has followed the horror on
social media is the last hope for any to survive; as she understands firsthand
how to live in a “Sounds of Silence” (Simon and Garfunkle) world.
Although the premise of a species threatening humanity is not new,
Tim Lebbon provides a refreshing young adult take on the theme. Readers, who ignore their plausibility meter
that a young teen whose only credential is deafness can lead the way to staying
safe, will cheer on courageous Ally as she tries to teach her family silence is
the new world order.
Harriet Klausner
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