Review: The Quality of Silence

The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holy Hell..... What a book!

For starters, The Quality of Silence is the first book that I have read, where one of the main characters have a disability, (being deaf). It was a completely new experience to me, but one I enjoyed greatly from the get go. TGOS was filled with action and suspense from the very first page and kept me intrigued, reading the book in less than two days I felt drawn in to the world that Ruby and Yasmin was in. From the moment they started their journey to the moment the book ended. Although saying that, when I finished the book, I couldn't help but go WHAT! How could it end that way? I honestly wanted there to be more, I hoped that there would be more. But other than that, I really enjoyed the book.

(Spoilers below, if you don't want to know more, stop reading now)
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From the moment Yasmin and her Daughter Ruby get's off the plane from England in Alaska, they have trouble, believed to be dead in a fire that wiped a whole village out, Ruby's mother sets out to find her husband and Ruby's father, believing that he is alive and not gone like the police say he is.
Setting out to get to the destroyed village, Yasmin and Ruby search for a rigger who would be willing to drive them to another city. When they are turned down, Yasmin starts to loose hope until another driver tells her about a driver who owned his own rig.
Willing and happy to take them, Yasmin and Ruby starts their journey across the wildness of Alaska. After a short while of being on the road, the driver of the rig notices headlights in his mirror, thinks it could be another driver on the road.
#As they drive, Ruby believes that her father is alive and well since her mother hasn't told her about the fire which has burnt the village down. As they drive, Ruby soon makes friends with the driver and find themselves talking about music and other things until they arrive at a rest stop, the last before open country for hundreds of miles.

While Yasmin is inside buying more food and drink, Ruby comes rushing in, explaining to her mother that their friend and driver had taken ill, soon he is returned to Fairbanks and Yasmin has to take matters in to her own hands.
Driving herself and Ruby in to the unknown, they soon encounter a fierce storm, making er worry even more after emails from a strange email address start to come through on Ruby's laptop, plus, those headlights are still following her and the truck.

Being forced to continue driving, Yasmin soon comes to the ice road that she spoke about to the driver and starts to test the ice until finally her and Ruby have to leave before they go down with the rig when it starts sinking.
Sending a flare up in hopes that the police will find them, mother and daughter starts walking and running to get of the ice, in sheer hoplesness, Yasmin starts shouting for her husband before she notices a torch running towards them. Stopping in fear, she holds Ruby close before the man appears and it's like her whole life is fixed when it turns out to be her husband, alive and as well as he can be after being out in the snow and storm.
It's not long before the officer who spoke with Yasmin at the start of their journey appears, telling them that he has the guy who was following her and Ruby. Matt tells them all everything which had happened and how he had found the villagers dead before he is shocked to know that a fire had been set to hide the truth behind their deaths. While the officer turns out to be one of the bad guys, Ruby sets off in the dark to get to a high point on a mountain so she can connect to the internet long enough to send out her blog and tweets for help.
The bad man ends up shooting the officer after he turns and helps Yasmin and Matt when they go after Ruby. Once he arrives and sees that she has sent the tweets out, the bad man, Jack, shoots the laptop before disappearing in to the night, leaving the family alone on top of the mountain.

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