Michelle Paver
Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 3.96 | 9949 Users | 1367 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dark Matter |
| Author | : | Michelle Paver |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | October 21st 2010 by Orion |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Paranormal. Ghosts. Fantasy |
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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 join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, but the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice: stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return--when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...Present Books Concering Dark Matter
| Original Title: | Dark Matter |
| ISBN: | 1409123782 (ISBN13: 9781409123781) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2010), Prix Masterton for Roman traduit (2013) |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 9949 Users | 1367 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books Dark Matter
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver is a slow burning ghost story; slowly the tension builds and builds until... The story kicks off on 7th January 1937, the first entry being written in the journal of Jack Miller who is preparing for an expedition to Gruhuken. This uninhabited location in Arctic is the back drop of this chilling story, the atmosphere and solitude all playing a role in building the tension within this story. The relationship between Jack and his companions Gus, Algie, Hugo and TeddyThere were times reading the book that I genuinely felt an old type of fear, by old fear, I mean the fear/anxiety you feel as a child in a dark house or somewhere spooky etc. The way the author brings the levels of anxiety soreing by Jack just being on his own, never mind the malevolent spirit stalking him is just brilliant. The part when Mr Eriksons trapper friend turned up to check on Jack I felt genuine relief for him and I myself felt completely at ease while reading the book but as soon as
After a few too many meh reads lately, this was exactly what I needed! The Artic is a really perfect setting for a good ghost story, one that is so utterly absorbing and beautifully atmospheric. In some ways this chilling backdrop was almost more powerful then the true ghost aspect of the plot. Paver's descriptions are so vivid, so expressive, that I could really see Gruhuken, and it was easy to understand Jack's increasing paranoia, in eternal and silent darkness. The plot itself is really very
1947. The story opens with a response to letter. I dont think well ever learn the truth of what happened at Gruhuken. However I know enough to be convinced that something terrible took place No doubt the journal would, as you suggest explain much of what happened, but it has not survived, and I cannot ask Jack himself.1937. The one year research expedition to the Arctic is told strictly through the words of Jack Millers journal. Jack joins the expedition of 3 other men looking for a
How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.Ive been in the mood for a good ghost story for a while, and when another book blogger told me that Michelle Pavers novel Dark Matter was not only suspenseful and spooky, but also set in a wild remote place, I didnt need any more persuasion! And I must say that it lived up to all my expectations.Dark Matter features an Arctic expedition in 1937, when four young men set off in a Norwegian vessel to spend a year on the remote land spit of Gruhuken
Now I love snow. I long for it with every fibre of my red blooded being. I yearn and strain to hear and see and feel it falling. Where I live in Poole we hardly ever get it and when the rest of the kingdom is cloaked in it we have the normal talcum powder sprinklings which somehow manages to bring all normal progress to a grinding halt or we have absolutely none whatsoever whilst radio and tv bangs on about blizzard conditions and the horror that is the white stuff everywhere else. Yet with all
Ghost of "Gruhuken" - 4.5 stars.... I am immensely fascinated with the Artic so anytime I find a book set in the area, I snap them up. I also love a good ghost story so if you combine the two I'm in heaven! And that's exactly what you'll find in Dark Matter so I knew going into it, that it just had to be good. In 1937, a 28 year old, down-on-his luck guy named Jack, is offered the chance to join an Artic expedition to a remote uninhabited area named Gruhuken. From the start, the expedition is
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