The Silence by Tim Lebbon
Horror , Tim Lebbon , Titan Books / June 2, 2015

In the darkness of a underground cave, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, voices, and they feed… Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive; to whisper is to summon death. As the hordes lay waste to Europe, a girl watches to see if they will cross the sea. Deaf for years, she knows how to live in silence; now, it is her family’s only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others. But what kind of world will be left? For me the best, most effective horror comes when ordinary people are forced into extraordinary inexplicable circumstances. How they react, and the choices that they make are endlessly fascinating. Ally is an average girl. She has many of the same problems, hopes and dreams as any other teen you’re likely to meet. Her parents, her grandmother and her brother are much the same. They are normal people who you would more than likely walk by on the street. When a plague of vicious creatures, quickly nicknamed vesps, are unleashed on an unsuspecting world the family are forced to confront a horror that is so entirely alien it threatens to destroy them all. The descriptions of…