Dark Matter
What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?' January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireless operator for an Arctic expedition, he jumps at...
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What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?' January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireless operator for an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, c
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0047CPB1K
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Horror,
Ghost Stories,
Gothic,
Ghosts,
Fiction,
Historical
DNF @ 127p. (of 255p.) Dark Matter was Paver's first book for the general adult readership, and it shows. To me, this still reads like a YA novel and I cannot get invested in the story or the main character's situation. What is worse to me, reading Dark Matter after having read Thin Air, is that D...
"Dark Matter" is a ghost story of the kind only a master storyteller can get right. The sense of bone-deep, hair-raising, hope-defeating dread builds with a slow inexorability that is almost too much to endure. It is a book that seems at first to about the atmosphere of a place and the state of mi...
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver My rating: 5 of 5 stars Top Read 2018Five men and eight huskies make their way to the Arctic, specifically to Gruhuken; an uninhabited bay that the expedition will spend the next twelve months. As the last days of summer fade, darkness descends until the sun becomes a d...
I’m now (finally) done with Dark Matter, my latest read for my #ScreamsByMail #HorrorPostalBookClub on Litsy. When I was actually reading it, it sped by, but I took a MASSIVE break in the middle of it because of animal death (yes, I know it’s par for the course in the Arctic circle but I couldn’t de...
Although technically a ghost story, the real horror for me is the sense of creeping dread and isolation and loneliness as the last man left in the endless night of an arctic camp. Most chilling of all is the man’s horror at contemplating the afterlife should he perish there and become a ghost himsel...
7 years ago
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