#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 67: Dead Silence

Calendar year 3 of the #HorrorForLibraries giveaway begins with a crowd pleaser of a SF-Horror blend that will be hugely popular with library patrons. It is fun and creepy and terrifying all at once. It comes out this month and I just reviewed it in LJ. Details below, but first, here is a refresher on the basic rules to enter:

1. You need to be affiliated with an American public library. My rationale behind that is that I will be encouraging you to read these books and share them with patrons. While many of them are advanced reader copies that you cannot add to your collections, if you get the chance to read them, my hope is that you will consider ordering a copy for your library and give away the ARC away as a prize or pass it on to a fellow staff member.
2. If you are interested in being included in any giveaway at any time, you must email me at zombiegrl75 [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line "#HorrorForLibraries." In the body of the email all you have to say is that you want to be entered and the name of your library.
3. Each entry will be considered for EVERY giveaway. Meaning you enter once, and you are entered until you win. I will randomly draw a winner on Fridays sometime after 5pm central. But only entries received by 5pm each week will be considered for that  week. I use Random.org and have a member of my family witness the "draw"based off your number in the Google Sheet.
4. If you win, you are ineligible to win again for 4 weeks; you will have to re-enter after that time to be considered [I have a list of who has won, when, and what title]. However, if you do not win, you carry over into the next week. There is NO NEED to reenter.

Click here to see giveaway #66. Our winner was Rebecca from Racine [WI] Public Library. Now on to today's giveaway.

Yesterday I posted the links to the 8 titles I reviewed for my January 2022 column in Library Journal on the regular blog here.

One of those books was Dead Silence. You can read my full review here. My three words for this book are visceral tension, engaging narration, excellent world building. But again, this book is fun and creepy and terrifying all at the same time. 

Further readlaikes are anything Titanic related such as THE DEEP by Alma Katsu, but also this is a great book for fans of reality TV-- read and you will see why.

It is fun, yes, and vacillates from creepy to terrifying, but if you want to step back, there is a lot to think about here as well. But also, you don't have to think about it to enjoy it. Like the very best SF, it is a commentary about society now set in a speculative future, and like the very best Horror it hits you with fear in your gut. It is a true genre blend of both. 

Finally, our narrator is tragically flawed but also so sympathetic. She drives the story and keeps it grounded and centered.

This will be a crowd pleaser. Order multiple copies for your collections but for now, you can enter to win the ARC I read for review courtesy of Nightfire.