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Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

Title: Wolf BrotherAuthor: Michelle PaverSeries: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #1Rating Out of 5: 4 (Really good read!)My Bookshelves: Fantasy, Historical fantasy, MagicPace: MediumFormat: eBook, NovelYear: 2004 I first read Wolf Brother a very long time ago, and I vaguely remembered loving it. And reading the second book, Spirit Walker, before having to wait until the rest of the books got…

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Thin Air by Michelle Paver - Update #1

Hi! I decided to take a short break, but now I'm back with plenty of updates! I plan to write about the books I've read during the break, but for now I want to tell you about one of the three books I'm currently reading:)

The book is called Thin Air and is written by Michelle Paver, author of Dark Matter. I found it on sale in the bookstore I previously worked at, and was intrigued by the cover and the summary on the back.

It's set in the 1930s in the Himalayas, about a group that decides to climb the mountain, Kangchenjunga (third highest peak on Earth!). The narrator is dr. Stephen Pearce, the group medic. Before the climb, he has a strange encounter with the famous Charles Tennant, a member of a group that previously tried to climb the Kangchenjunga. He was the only one who survived. Clearly haunted by whatever they encountered on the mountain, Tennant's erratic behavior manages to plant a seed of doubt in Stephen. He starts to wonder whether or not their expedition is a good idea...

The cover promises that the book is atmospheric, and I must say that it so far has delivered on that promise! There is an eerie tone to the writing, and I lack a better way of describing it than "reading the book feels like sitting in a room full of mist"...

The plot is far from similar to The Secret History by Donna Tartt and The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman (another book I read in the break that I will tell you about later!). Nevertheless, they're also two books that are good on atmospheric writing, so if you enjoyed the atmospheric writing style of those two, I think this book also could be for you!

I'm very much looking forward to what direction the book goes in, and I expect to be spooked!

Date: Saturday 16th of May, 2026

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Title: Dark Matter | Author: Michelle Paver | Publisher: Orion Books (2011)

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Every Michelle Paver ghost story has a premise that boils down to "white English guy who'd be the protagonist of an early 20th Century travel novel goes to a place and experiences The Horrors"

if done badly, that could come off as "places outside England are scary" but in Paver's works the message is pretty clearly more "if you go to a place you need to respect the place you're going to" - at least in the two that I've read in full and can therefore say this about, that failure to respect the place is what inflicts The Horrors upon the main character even if the actual source of the horrors is some past act of cruelty committed by people who also did not respect the place

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Recently read Dark Matter by Michelle Paver and then like a day later found out that Josh O’Connor was cast as the lead in the movie adaptation like four years ago but looks like the film never actually got made…… just sufferings upon sufferings

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anyway. michelle paver's dark matter. incredibly hard to find a copy to read, but definitely worth it. i adore arctic horror, and this definitely fit the category. 4/5 only because it's a little... i don't want to say boring, but i've definitely read arctic horror that was better. ally wilkes spoiled me with All the White Spaces, i think, but still. dark matter is a solid read

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Hello everyone, do you like Arctic horror with a touch of homosexuality? (Probably the answer is yes if you follow my stupid ass blog) If so please read Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. 10/10 recommend.

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Rainforest, by Michelle Paver, narrated by Richard Armitage, is now available on Audible UK, Google Play and Kobo.