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In a mist-soaked town in the Pacific Northwest three teenagers find themselves pitted against an unearthly menace that dwells beneath the foundations of their high school...
Eberstark is an outcast and he's tired of pretending everything is fine. His mother disappeared almost a year ago after a long battle with depression. His father is conducting experiments and running around town in the middle of night with a mysterious man known only as The Hat, ranting to Eberstark about beasts no one else can see.
Then on Halloween night, Eberstark, alongside his only friends Lexi and Gus, discovers something in the woods to challenge his father's apparent insanity: a wounded monster. Rather than stir the town into a frenzy, the three friends hide the creature and are pulled into a web of conspiracy, dream-logic, and death. Faced down by living trucks, mirror-dwelling psychopaths, and hellish entities who lurk behind friendly faces, Eberstark, Lexi, and Gus find themselves battling to save not just themselves, but the soul of their quiet little town.
Praise for THE SILENT END, a Kirkus September Speculative Fiction Reading Pick
"The Silent End is the book I desperately needed when I was sixteen; hilarious, subversive, and deeply weird. Do not read this at night. Do not read this alone. But read it. Now."
--Sean Beaudoin, author of Wise Young Fool and The Infects
"Imagine if Halloween had been written by The Kids in The Hall instead of John Carpenter and you start to understand the wild, mesmerizing mash up that is The Silent End."
--Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine
"So much fun and terror and tragedy and delight."
--D. Foy, author of Made to Break
"Samuel Sattin's The Silent End is smart yet accessible, creepy and hilarious, a vividly told novel both teens and adults will enjoy." --Largehearted Boy
"Entertaining, provocative, and engaging...Whether you're a child of the 1980s like me or just love a good coming-of-age adventure yarn, The Silent End is worth a look." --Jed W. Harris-Keith, Freak Sugar
"If you're looking for a good horror novel, you'll want to keep your eye out for this one." --Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, Comic Vine
"Samuel Sattin has written a young adult novel that's right over the plate for pop culture fans."
--Hannah Means Shannon, Bleeding Cool "Deeply melancholy, a little frightening...Samuel Sattin has written The Silent End for teenagers who are actually teenagers."
--J. Wilbanks, Galleywampus
"A creepy, bizarre, nightmare-logic story which put me in the mind of the Alan Wake game or Stephen King's work...The Silent End is an exceptionally well-written horror novel."
-- C.T. Phipps, The United Federation of Charles (9.5 out of 10 stars)
- Sales Rank: #1224451 in Books
- Published on: 2015-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.30" w x 6.00" l, 1.68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 466 pages
Review
"The Silent End�shows that being alone in your worries isn't always the answer when some crazy crap is going on in your town...because "Goonies never say die" and it's better to "break the silence" then keep on hidden." --The Mary Sue
The Silent End is the book I desperately needed when I was sixteen; hilarious, subversive, and deeply weird. Do not read this at night. Do not read this alone. But read it. Now." --Sean Beaudoin, author of Wise Young Fool and The Infects
"So much fun and terror and tragedy and delight."
--D. Foy, author of Made to Break
"Imagine if Halloween had been written by The Kids in TheHall instead of John Carpenter and you start to understand the wild,mesmerizing mash up that is The Silent End." --Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver
"Teen horror with a whole lot of heart." --Strange Horizons
"Smart yet accessible, creepy andhilarious, a vividly told novel both teens and adults willenjoy." --Largehearted Boy
"Sattin manages to create a yarn that...is�fully-formed and with an atmosphere andvibrancy distinctly its own." --Jed W. Harris-Keith, Freak Sugar�
"The Silent End is part Monster Squad, part Twin Peaks, and part Lovecraft�-- as written by a young Stephen King possessed by the spirit of Arthur Machen channelling Gary Gygax... This is a remarkably well-crafted young adult novel, perfect for the dark and stormy Halloween season ahead. "
--David Gallaher, High Moon, Only Living Boy
"If you're looking for a good horror novel, you'll want to keep your eye out for this one."
--Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, Comic Vine
"Samuel Sattin has written a young adult novel that's right over the plate for pop culture fans."
--Hannah Means Shannon, Bleeding Cool
"This novel is amazing - horror writing at its finest...It's a perfect read for the Halloween season, and one that I'd recommend picking up ASAP." --Dread Central
"The Silent End offers a rare thrill in that glutted field of mediocre young adult fiction, horror, and fantasy: A story which transcends genre and narrative trappings, leaving you guessing until the very end, and wanting more, long after that." --HEEB Magazine
"Once or twice a year I'll start reading a book expecting it to be goodand it'll turn out to be superb. In the case of Samuel Sattin's TheSilent End, that rare occurrence was made even stranger by the fact that the novel mashes together an incredible array of genres and walks abizarre line between a YA novel, a creepy and very atmospheric mystery,and hardcore horror. With enoughmonsters, bullies, gore, and action to satisfy any fiction lover, TheSilent End is the kind of adventure narrative full of relatablecharacters that gets young readers hooked on books and satisfies adultreaders who enjoy weird, eerie tales, and pulling off both things isremarkable. That being said, perhaps more impressive is the fact thatthe author manages to keep readers engaged for 524 pages."
-- Gabino Iglesias, HorrorTalk
"Wild and mesmerizing."-Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver "So much fun and terror and tragedy and delight."-D. Foy, author of Made to Break
About the Author
Samuel Sattin is a novelist and essayist. He is the author of League of Somebodies, described by Pop Matters as "One of the most important novels of 2013," and The Silent End. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, io9, Kotaku, San Francisco Magazine, Publishing Perspectives, LitReactor, The Weeklings, The Good Men Project, and elsewhere. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and an MFA in Comics from CCA. He's the recipient of NYS and SLS Fellowships and lives in Oakland, California.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
not a typical YA
By Janelle Wilbanks
This is a rare YA book from Ragnarok Publishing.
I am not entirely sure why they don’t publish more novels suitable for Young Adult, but I do know exactly why I don’t often read in the genre: there is a fundamental dishonesty in some of those books, they’ve been sanitized, and they try to fit the mold of what they think teenagers want to read. Often this succeeds, but it doesn’t make for entertaining reading. When I was a teenager, some of us were swearing, some of us were getting high behind the gas station at lunch, and some of us were exploring our sexualities with actual real live people. Not much of that happens in YA, and not only is that dishonest, but it’s boring.
Samuel Sattin has written The Silent End for teenagers who are actually teenagers, and not blocky goody two-shoes. From the back copy, I could tell that this was going to be a little deeper, and a little more wistful than the average book aimed for teenagers.
In a mist-covered town in the Pacific Northwest, three teenagers find themselves pitted against an unearthly menace that dwells beneath the foundations of their high school…
Eberstark is an outcast and he’s tired of pretending everything is fine. His mother disappeared almost a year ago after a long battle with depression. His father is conducting experiments and running around town in the middle of night with a mysterious man known only as The Hat, ranting to Eberstark about beasts no one else can see.
Then, on Halloween night, Eberstark, alongside his only friends Lexi and Gus, discovers something in the woods to challenge the notion of his father’s apparent insanity: a wounded monster. Rather than stir the town into a frenzy, the three friends hide the creature and are pulled into a web of conspiracy, dream-logic, and death. Faced down by living trucks, mirror-dwelling psychopaths, and hellish entities who lurk behind friendly faces, Eberstark, Lexi, and Gus find themselves battling to save not just themselves, but the soul of their quiet little town.
Sattin’s particular talent (at least in this book) is tone, followed swiftly by character development. The novel is set in the Pacific Northwest, and somehow his word choice conveys that his characters live in a rain-drenched world, and they see the sun but rarely. There are no turns of phrase that would belong in a book set in Fresno, California, or Mexico City. Here, the setting fits the story, for the story is deeply melancholy, a little frightening, and a lot of the plot remains obscured for a good chunk of the novel.
The characters are extremely well thought out. It’s a book set in a small town, so it can’t really get away with having anonymous store owners, teachers, or kids the main character knows personally. Everyone mentioned has just enough detail that I wonder if Sattin created a comprehensive map and filled it in with details of every single citizen before he even started writing. It has that kind of realism.
The rest of it is not so realistic. The back cover copy advertises dream logic, and that is an understatement. As we get deeper and deeper into the book, we begin to see that there is this miasma of unreality that settled over the town long ago, and it’s just now being noticed. The main character, Eberstark, has had these perceptions of people (his friend’s father, his mother, etc.) that first read as — here’s another slightly depressed grown-up. It’s sad, but normal. And then… the mist starts drifting away, and things like depression or inertia become a hell of a lot more sinister.
This book is worth reading, if only for the shivers.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great characters and descriptive imagination of this strange and scary town
By Tim Ward
Even coming in knowing The Silent End is going to be a different kind of story didn’t prepare me for the incredible creativity I soon discovered. The writing adds artistic flair to what you could call a thrilling monster ride for teenage geeks who find the courage to confront their worst nightmares. The first chapter starts off very strong with a combination of empathy for our main character’s loss of his mother, a sense that something is off with their reality, and yet the humorous camaraderie that he has with his friends grounds us into feeling like we’d want to join them in their upcoming adventure.
Here’s a sample of the first lines:
Have you ever heard of an airplane vanishing? A set of engines, rumbling into fair weather, a moment later eaten by atmosphere?
Well, that’s how Mother’s disappearance was for me. A traceless beacon. A silent end. It was as if she dematerialized from her bedroom as a midnight sacrifice, something for the monsters Father now hunted.
…
…”You know she hangs out with us because she’s bored, right?”
“Shut up, Eberstark. ” He tilted his body with un-delicate poise as he said my name (my last name, actually—it was what everyone had called me since middle school). Gus, while lithe, had a kinetic
personality. A confidence so inbred it made me doubt my own. “You think everybody pities us. Which, you know, makes me think you really just pity yourself.”
“No, I’m just sick and tired of being branded an outcast because of your need to be so blatantly public about your hobbies.”
“ My hobbies? Are you kidding me? I seem to remember someone crying, yes, CRYING, when his Techno-Lorque Legion got crushed in the Attactix tournament last year. Don’t try and under-nerd me , man. It’ll be an uphill battle.” He noticed my costume then, as if for the first time, and gave a double take. “What are you supposed to be, anyway?”
“A shadow.”
Before his mother disappeared, she claimed to see things in mirrors. The author displays throughout a gift at providing details in the story to make us share in his main character’s paranoia, as well as empathize with his desire to find courage in the face of losing his mom, and with building a stronger self-esteem in light of how his dad treats him and how he feels as an outcast in his school.
There is so much in this story to discover, I don’t want to spoil anything more. The author continually impressed me with plot twists, where not only didn’t I think he’d take the story in the direction he chose, but he also added such intricate details to this surreal haunted town that so many paragraphs were a treat to the senses.
The only drawback I found was the character interest weakened as he worked through plot points between the mid-point and the climax. It may be that the focus going into the weirdness of the world and what they had to do meant less emphasis on them as characters–though there were major points delivered in their character arcs…it’s hard to explain. I can’t say specifically what he did without spoiling anything, but my experience was I wanted more emotional engagement during some key moments and as they moved from one plot point to the next. What I loved about the beginning was the equal balance between them as friends and individuals–he used humor well to entertain between big moments and where the focus was on the strangeness of their situation. As the strangeness took over, it read like a book with too much action. In this part of the story, I debated finishing. I’m glad I did, but I’m hoping future works will keep all of what made this story special more equal throughout.
I will anxiously await the next story by Mr. Sattin and loudly encourage others to enjoy this one of a kind journey into his imagination.
Review copy provided by publisher.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Here there be monsters...
By vinegartom
Sattin is at his best here with The Silent End, integrating strong shades of the bizarre with the quotidian in deft stylistic form. It reads as if the likes of Stephen King rewrote Goonies, like a hundred sleepy Pacific Northwest villages all dreamt the same sleepy dream and then had a sudden onset of night terrors, like drollness of your high school had a presence of mind all its own, and a hundred other skittering, squealing phantasms. Sometimes nightmares make the best dreams.
Beginning with the town of Mossglow and a small group of friends thrown together against the slings and arrows of outrageous parenting, middling bullies and a menagerie of high school faculty and their respective administration, it progresses down still stranger paths- along a misty coast and into a chimerical world of living dreams. Here the safeties of childhood vanish in the fog. Here there be monsters.
The Silent End was written as a YA novel, but is one in a long tradition of such novels that reads well for all ages and interests. I am proud to recommend it.
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