Dark Matter: the gripping ghost story from the author of WAKENHYRST

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I really wanted to like this book, and it was a quick read however I did not feel anything for the majority of the characters (I didn't mind the main character). It's the kind of unobvious horror that slowly creeps up on you, and makes you want to keep reading to the end. Hunted and on the run he takes refuge in unknown territory - the haunted reedbeds of Lake Axehead, where he is menaced by the Hidden People. Inevitably, there are similarities between the two, but Thin Air is so full of atmosphere, so absorbing, that it develops its own character very quickly.

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The context of "Thin Air" is a 1935 expedition to the summit of the Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas, the third highest peak in the world. Michelle Paver is most famous for writing a series of fantasy novels for younger readers - which I have not read - and Dark Matter, subtitled A Ghost Story, is her first novel for adult readers. Jack is well realised character, that I had no problem investing my interest in along with his horrific travails. Once the depleted team are truly on their own, the realisation that they are in such an isolated and desolate location really hits home . While tthe remaining three are decided on reaching Gruhuken, the Scandinavian captain of the vessel does not want to sail - although he eventually succumbs and sets course to Gruhuken, he does not want to share the reason for his reluctance.there are some other human characters as well but eh whatever, the most compelling part of the story is that Jack meets AN AWESOME HUSKY NAMED ISAAK! From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher.

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This is the sort of book you don't see too often these days, indeed you might be fooled into thinking it was written contemporaneously. There is a sort of infectious anxiety that slowly builds as the days slowly advance and the ill-fated expedition goes from one set back to the next. This one focuses more on the ghost story aspect versus a lot of climbing details which is still great but if you are looking for more of a technical perspective then you probably want to read a true account instead of this. The whole story is in the context of a diary kept by our hero and so we get only his opinion, his viewing of the situation but Paver enables us to see his mistakes and misunderstandings and misrepresentations because, when all else is said and done, he is an honest man. She expertly set up a failed 1907 Lyell Expedition and explained the impact it had on climbers in the 1935 Cotterell expedition at hand.To battle the loneliness and desolation; yes, even with the many comforts that our modern age affords. The big differences were, which character was likely gay (it's the 1930's, so always intimated - never stated outright) and that this book is no where near as spooky and did not give me chills, though I did learn a little about mountaineering in the 30's. She shifted the story to the stone age and wrote Wolf Brother, the first book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, which opens as Torak and his father are attacked by a demon bear. Thin Air is a proper ghost story, the good old-fashioned type, to be read under a blanket with a candle flickering, and every detail of its creepy, compelling tale is note-perfect - the historical detail, the slow build-up, the delicious dread of the spooky scenes. Over the course of weeks, eerie happenings disturb his peace of mind: a masked figure from Sardinian folklore lurks in the bush, and a blood-covered sewing dummy appears in his attic.

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As the Arctic winter - permanent night - draws in and a series of mysterious accidents befall the others, Jack's misgivings about Gruhuken grow and grow. I could feel the chilly winds and the cold in this one and the eerie feel of the mountain really comes to life in her vivid writing. From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambition, set against the atmospheric backdrop of Victorian London. And when the team arrive at the forbidding outpost of Gruhuken island, illness forces Jack's two remaining companions to go back to civilisation.Thousands of years ago an orphan boy and his wolf cub challenge a demon bear that threatens to destroy their world for ever. In the interim, she “took a bit of a wrong turn”, becoming a biotechnological patents lawyer for 13 years. Until an ambitious and malevolent force conjures a demon: a demon so evil that it can be contained only in the body of a ferocious bear that will slay everything.