This Splintered Silence

By: Kayla Olson

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

From the author of The Sandcastle Empire comes a sci-fi thriller that’s equal parts Illuminae and One of Us Is Lying.

Lindley Hamilton has been the leader of the space station Lusca since every first generation crew member on board, including her mother, the commander, was killed by a deadly virus.

Lindley always assumed she’d captain the Lusca one day, but she never thought that day would come so soon. And she never thought it would be like this—struggling to survive every day, learning how to keep the Lusca running, figuring out how to communicate with Earth, making sure they don’t run out of food.

When a member of the surviving second generation dies from symptoms that look just like the deadly virus, though, Lindley feels her world shrinking even smaller. And as more people die, Lindley must face the terrifying reality—that either the virus has mutated, or one of their own is a killer.

Teen Romance Taking Place on a Space Station

Not much scifi here. More of a teen romance taking place on a space station suffering from a virus and possible serial killer. A bunch of 16 and 17 year old kids playing at being adults and doing a very poor job of it. The main protagonist (Lindsley) was extremely poorly written. She is a total dipshit making 1 bad decision after another. Making out with both of her male friends, stringing along each of them. She lies to others on the station and on Earth. How does a 17 year old girl sounds like a mature woman (her mother)? How could anyone listening on the other end of communications, especially someone who knew the mother very well, think she was her mother? Are we really supposed to believe that people are that dumb? Does Ms. Olson think we are that dumb? Why any of the people on that station would want Lindsley as their "Commander" is beyond me. I would have shot her out of an airlock. Wish I could have shot this book out of an airlock.