Read for SPFBO, this only my personal opinion, group verdict might differ widely! 🚨

After Silence by Natalie Northwood shows a lot of promise, but doesn't deliver on everything it promises.

The start was quite intriguing, with a nonhuman "Dweller" from "other lands than Norandia" falling from the sky, but miraculously still being alive.
So I immediately wondered about where and how different those other lands might be, what makes those Dwellers able to fly, and plenty more questions.

Some of these got answered, but overall the world building just stayed a bit vague, and didn't hook nearly as much as I expected from the start.

The characters are interesting, but again at times a bit bland. What I really enjoyed was the friendship between our MC and her male best friend. That it just wasn't a big deal if he was in her room, as he was just a friend, like a brother. I was very much enjoying the seemingly no romance angle, but we do get one, and then a pretty obvious one, later on the book.

Overall it was a decent book I read to the end, with a lot of promise, but a few "first book niggles".