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Dark Matter is a by-the-books horror novel by Michelle Paver that could have used many more pages to develop its characters and themes.
The protagonist is Jack Miller, a middle-class young man who hates his job as a clerk and is in desperate need of purpose. So, when the opportunity of becoming a wireless operator in an expedition to the Arctic presents itself, he immediately jumps on board and travels with four other men to Gruhuken, a desolate place on the coast of a Norwegian Archipelago.
The novel is written in first-person, using Jack’s journal as the basis of the narrative. Early on, he writes about how he feels to be drifting through life, without a goal or [...]
Bird Box, written by Josh Malerman, is a post-apocalyptic horror novel about a world where people, haunted by unfathomable creatures, cannot open their eyes when they go out on the streets, lest they go mad and commit suicide. The book, however, is not able to take advantage of the potential of this premise, failing to present captivating characters and to construct scenes packed with tension.
The protagonist is called Malorie, a woman who finds herself pregnant precisely on the day in which humanity is attacked by mysterious monsters on the streets.: every person who looks at them goes mad and kills themselves. With her eyes closed, Malorie leaves desperately for a house that [...]