6/30/2023 0 Comments Dark matter michelle![]() ![]() It started off strong, setting the scene and describing the hopelessness that would motivate someone like Jack to forgo all he knows to venture to no-mans-land. I can’t pin-point precisely where the story lost me. Not only are characters forced to contend with whatever supernatural entity is on their tail, the very land itself threatens their survival on a daily basis. I think that is what makes it the perfect landscape for a horror novel. ![]() It’s so hostile and isolated yet life miraculously persists in spite of it all. It’s a bastion of cruelty set against a backdrop of incomprehensible beauty. After they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, Jack feels a creeping unease. So when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. ![]() 28-year-old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE ANY FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS NOVEL, READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK. ![]()
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