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Quality of Silence is one hell of a thriller that I couldnt put down, This is the second book that Ive read by this author now and Im looking forward to reading her other books.
Intense, on the edge of your seat and intriguing, I loved this book so much more than I thought I would,

If you enjoy reading thrillers, mystery, crime or suspense, then I HIGHLY recommend you read this book.

Combinação Divinal


Recostada no meu sofá de leitura vou sorvendo e degustando um cocktail de neve e silêncio.

Que Combinação Divina! From the setting of the story to the underlying issues, I found this one to be pretty impressive.
sitelinkRosamund Lupton brings her readers to the Arctic Circle to experience polar night which means no daylight for months.
I could feel the bonechilling cold and envision the snow covered tundra all around me, which only intensified the eeriness of being in complete darkness.


You have to question whether Yasmin is incredibly brave or if shes delusional, She arrives in Alaska with her tenyearold deaf daughter, Ruby, with plans to deliver an ultimatum to her husband, only to find out there has been a tragic accident.
Driving a semitruck through Northern Alaska, in the middle of a snow storm, she's determined to find her husband and bring him home.


The story gets a little monotonous at the halfway point driving through the snow, panicking about driving off the road and fearing there's a tanker following her.
I couldn't help but to wonder, would they realistically be able to survive this trip, alone Seasoned drivers were pleading with her to turn around.
Of course, she didn't listen, Would you, if it was your husband out there

Ruby was the bright spot in the story for me.
She was smart, charming and the connection she shared with her dad was incredibly sweet, He seemed like the only person that really understood her and it made me hope against all odds that he was safe.


What I thought was a story headed in one direction, ended up being something totally different, The underlying social and ethical issues made this story a stand out for me, It was refreshing. Well played sitelinkRosamund Lupton,

Complimentary copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
I've found this book rather difficult to rate.
There was a lot I enjoyed about this book, but there were a couple of issues, that in turn, prevented me from loving it.


I loved that the setting of this story was in the brutal winter cold of Alaska, It felt really well described, and I actually felt rather cold reading it, The winter wilderness felt very real,

As

a person that has much to do with child hearing loss, I thought Ruby's part was well done.
Her character was brave, thoughtful and portrayed adequately for a child with a hearing impairment, I think she should have had a bigger role in the story, though,

The main issue that stands out to me, is that I felt like I was reading two different stories.
Sometimes, this method actually works, but in the case of this particular book, it didn't, The ending was rushed, and had no significance to the previous part of the book, It kind of irritated me, It was all pretty tense, then something happened, which ruined the rest of the story for me, It's unfortunate, but it happens,

Overall, I'd recommend even just for the beautiful Alaska descriptions, but as for the plot, I was quite disappointed.



UPDATE:,Kindle US

You have no idea how much I want to give out spoilers about this book!



I liked this book because it goes into things that are very important to me, but alas! NO SPOILERS! Well some MILD SPOILERS :

I fell in love with little Ruby right away.
She is deaf and she's so smart and so sweet, Her mother Yasmin . mmmmm . I had issues with her because she takes Ruby onto the ice roads with her with a major storm coming in.
. she put her child's life in danger, BUT, Ruby can't hear and there is no one around to leave her with, so what's she to do Some of the things Yasmin thought of doing, I really wanted to smack her, but it all worked out.


So, they are supposed to be meeting Ruby's dad Matt in Alaska, . when they get there, they find out he has been killed in an explosion with a lot of other people.
Yasmin doesn't believe Matt is dead because of some circumstances that happened, She decides to hitch a ride, with Ruby in tow, with one of the ice road truckers, She wants to make it to Deadhorse to see for herself, When Yasmin's driver has a medical emergency, she decides to, . . um. . steal his rig and take off, just her and Ruby across the tundra so to speak, Oh and did I mention this is in the middle of the night, Yeah



She does have a CB and internet access in the rig and she ends up making friends with a couple of old blokes.
I wish we could have actually met them at the end of the book, but I digress,

gtEXCERPTlt

Yasmin didn't say anything,
"Someone let you rent a rig" Coby said, and chuckled, "Who'd have thought it. "
"She's got a license, right" asked the other trucker,
"Must have," Coby said,
Yasmin didn't know what to say and, as she said nothing, the truth became clear,
"Jesus Christ," said the other driver, "If you ain't trained to drive a truck, then you gotta stop, pull over someplace safe, You got that, lady" she imagined him with fiery red hair and freckles, alarmed and cross, but not aggressive.

"I have to get to Deadhorse, My husband's missing and I have to find him, "
"Ain't that somethin' for the state troopers" Coby asked,
Yasmin didn't reply.
"The road will kill you," said the fiery redheaded driver, "Or you'll kill someone else, You gotta pull over. "
"No," said Yasmin. "Not till I've found my husband, "
"You don't get it ma'am," the redhaired driver said, "It's not safe to have you out here, Not safe for you, but not for us either, You'll cause an accident. Or you'll break down and we all get held up and there's a likely storm blowin' in and that ain't safe either.
"
"I'm sorry, really. But someone has to get to my husband and at the moment that's me, "
"Reckon you're one helluva lady," Coby said in his kind voice,

They proceed to give Yasmin tips on how to drive the truck, what to do and how to make it to Deadhorse.




Along the way someone seems to be following Yasmin and Ruby, As you can image if your not scared enough driving these ice roads at night in a storm in a big rig, you have some freak following you.
And something just doesn't seem right about the explosion that supposedly killed her husband,

Did someone leave the heat to close to the gas line or was it murder or something else entirely!



Yasmin and Ruby do end up getting caught in the storm and have to hunker down in the truck and pray they make it.


gtEXCERPTlt

Mum says she thinks we're in the eye of the storm.
I look out of the widescreen to see if there's an evil eye watching us, like Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, but there's just the reflection of our faces.


Isn't she sweet Oh and also, someone keeps sending them emails of dead animals and something else that I can't tell you because you will figure out what it is like I did : It all turns out in the end, we find out what happened and if Matt is still alive.
But the ending left me wanting more, it just like ended so you have to think well did this all happen or what

Either way, I enjoyed the book, accept for the dead animals and the reasons and grrrr.
I did love that it was set in the cold Winter and the ice roads, that was pretty cool.


I would like to thank Blogging for Books for a free print copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.


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