His shoes had worn through and he just couldn’t afford to heat his rented room. That was the time when Jack Miller ran out of options. The story of this novel is set in January 1937. It was told in the first person and that made it a very compelling listen for the audience, where accents and tonal quality were brilliant. The audio narration of the Dark Matter novel is done by Jeremy Northam. Among her most prominent books, you will find Wolf Brother and Thin Air novels of the author. He is mainly known for her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness which is a historical fantasy series.
She is a British author of children’s and adult novels. And the only thing that’s keeping me away from it is… more water.Dark Matter is a fiction title. The ice was solid beneath my boots – and yet, I thought, a few inches below me, there’s water so cold that if I fell in, I’d be dead within minutes. And for the first time in my life, I was aware of cold as a menace. Taut and eerie, this is a ghost story that winds chilly tendrils around your heart and slowly ratchets up the tension until its pitch-perfect ending.Īccording to the ship’s thermometer, it’s only a couple of degrees below freezing, but it was colder on the ice. As time passes, he’s adrift in the vast emptiness of the landscape while simultaneously trapped in the claustrophobia of his quarters. Through Jack’s eyes, we share his wonder at this completely foreign but devastatingly beautiful environment - and we feel his mounting fear. The descriptions of the Arctic scenery and weather are appropriately shivery. Strange things begin to happen, and it’s unclear to Jack - and to us - if there’s something supernatural out there on the ice or if the isolation, fear, and relentless black cold are causing Jack to lose his mind. One by one, Jack’s companions are forced to leave. Surrounded by bracing air and endless sea, Jack is exhilarated and optimistic.īut shortly after they arrive at their destination for the year, tragedy strikes. As the ship bound for Gruhuken, Norway, sails across icy cold waters, he gets to know salty sailors, his expedition mates, and the eight huskies that round out their team.
He sets aside his fears and sets sail for adventure. The other four members of the team are amateur explorers from posh families. But from the outset, he has some hesitations.
When he’s offered a job as a radio operator on an expedition to the Arctic, he says yes. Our hero Jack is 28 years old, poor, lonely, and in desperate need of a major change. The threatening fog of World War II hangs over the city. In the vein of tales like The Turn of the Screw and The Tell-Tale Heart, this eerie ghost story turns on an essential question: Is our narrator haunted by a supernatural being, or is he slowly losing his connection to reality?
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