Book Review | The Silence Project by The Silence Project - A Brilliant Take On Cult Fiction

I am so fascinated by cults and everything that goes into making a cult, so I instantly knew I was going to love The Silence Project. And thankfully I was not wrong!

My mother died as she had lived: in complete silence. On Emilia Morris’s thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their garden. From that day on, she never says another word. Inspired by her vow of silence, other women join her and together they build the Community. Eight years later, Rachel and thousands of her followers burn themselves to death. Emilia publishes her own account of her mothers’ life in a memoir called The Silence Project.

This might have been one of the most gripping prefaces I’ve read. Not only does it perfectly set the tone for whats to follow but it completely captures you and gets you hooked. And when I tell you I was hooked I mean it - I could not stop thinking about this book.

Hailey writes in a way that makes you get lost in the page to the point you put yourself in the story. I even found myself self-debating a lot about what I would do if this were happening to me. Overall, I came to the conclusion that I weirdly agree with the message the Community is fighting for - I believe it’s something a lot of people could learn from.

I need to make a special mention to page 176, there is a heartwarming and brutally truthful paragraph which talks about grief. My mum passed away when I was 11 and I have always struggled to describe my grief, but this one paragraph has summed it up perfectly. Thank you Hailey!

A big thank you to Random Things Tours, Carole Hailey and Corvus for including me in the blog tour for The Silence Project, I have loved reading this book. It always means a lot when people trust you with their work!