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A review by kba76
The Dark by Emma Haughton
4.0
I can’t imagine much more scary than being stuck somewhere as inhospitable as Antarctica for months, with just the company of twelve people you’ve never met. Oh wait…yes I can. Being in that situation and then having some of your colleagues turn up dead, the power going out in an act of sabotage and being stuck in that place knowing someone there has a gun and is prepared to kill you.
Kate is a doctor, struggling after a car crash in which her fiancé was killed, and she decides to take a job as doctor on an Antarctic base for the winter. She is scared of the dark, is not managing her addiction to painkillers after the accident and finds herself in a situation that would test the patience of a saint. When she starts to hear rumours about what happened to her predecessor and the ‘accidents’ that befall anyone trying to find out more she can be forgiven for acting irrationally and starting to doubt those around her.
The claustrophobic atmosphere of the base is everything. I think the identity of the killer was quite obvious, though there’s plenty of attempts to throw us off the scent. We’re never wholly sure what Kate is experiencing and what she’s imagining. There’s a few characters that give cause for concern, and by the time we start drawing to the inevitable ‘big moment’ I was desperate for it to be over because I was doubting everyone.
Huge thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this in exchange for my thoughts, and I am convinced we’ll see this on the big screen in the not too distant future.
Kate is a doctor, struggling after a car crash in which her fiancé was killed, and she decides to take a job as doctor on an Antarctic base for the winter. She is scared of the dark, is not managing her addiction to painkillers after the accident and finds herself in a situation that would test the patience of a saint. When she starts to hear rumours about what happened to her predecessor and the ‘accidents’ that befall anyone trying to find out more she can be forgiven for acting irrationally and starting to doubt those around her.
The claustrophobic atmosphere of the base is everything. I think the identity of the killer was quite obvious, though there’s plenty of attempts to throw us off the scent. We’re never wholly sure what Kate is experiencing and what she’s imagining. There’s a few characters that give cause for concern, and by the time we start drawing to the inevitable ‘big moment’ I was desperate for it to be over because I was doubting everyone.
Huge thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this in exchange for my thoughts, and I am convinced we’ll see this on the big screen in the not too distant future.