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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 [...]