![]() ![]() Where I live in Poole we hardly ever get it and when the rest of the kingdom is cloaked in it we have the normal talcum powder sprinklings which somehow manages to bring all normal progress to a grinding halt or we have absolutely none whatsoever whilst radio and tv bangs on about blizzard conditions and the horror that is the white stuff everywhere else. I yearn and strain to hear and see and feel it falling. I long for it with every fibre of my red blooded being. I am also pleased to say that SPOILER Isaak has a happy ending. Isaak made me like Jack, which is quite an accomplishment because Jack is a self-important, self-absorbed grouch. who cares if he hides under the bunk when the ghost comes a-calling, that's human business anyway. he also has beautiful blue eyes like most huskies and loves getting treats and enjoys running around and leaning against Jack. and he's a loyal dog too, which is sorta like saying a cat has claws because all good dogs are loyal dogs, but still it has to be said. So Isaak may not be a particularly brave dog, but he is definitely a good dog. ![]() of course the author's greatest accomplishment in this book is AN AWESOME HUSKY NAMED ISAAK. ![]() Dark Matter is essentially a haunted house story that takes place in a fairly original setting, full of wide, dark spaces although centered around a small, lonely cabin. Paver is particularly skilled at painting a locale that is highly atmospheric, dislocating, and eerie. Jack is an interestingly almost-unreliable narrator. she creates her characters quickly yet they retain nuance and realism. Paver does an excellent job at conveying the time and the place. 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! who will teach him that only morons hate dogs. there he will find meaning to his life, camaraderie and fellowship and an intense crush on one of his fellow adventurers, and an atrocious and deadly ghost. So Jack - a poor, depressed, dog-hating, lower class and very class conscious 28-year-old - finds the perfect solution to his angst and alienation: he will join a small expedition to the abandoned mining outpost of Gruhuken in the Arctic circle. Perfectly executed little ghost story set in the Arctic wastes in the late 1930s, featuring the adventures of AN AWESOME HUSKY NAMED ISAAK and I suppose some humans as well. ![]()
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