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A review by rachhenderson
The Dark by Emma Haughton
4.0
The Dark is exactly the sort of book that pulls me in from the blurb. Thirteen people are wintering at the United Nations Antarctic base. Kate was a late inclusion to the team after the previous doctor was killed in an abseiling accident just before the start of winter. Kate starts to suspect that his death wasn't the accident it might have seemed, especially when other team members start to die.
The first problem is that this has been done before. "The Head" is a 2020 TV series with a very similar premise, that I absolutely loved. Additionally, the author makes it as hard as possible to keep the 13 characters straight. There's Jean-Luc and Luuk, and Ark and Arne, so it's hard to see them as separate characters and therefore separate suspects. And Kate is rather annoying.
But I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
The first problem is that this has been done before. "The Head" is a 2020 TV series with a very similar premise, that I absolutely loved. Additionally, the author makes it as hard as possible to keep the 13 characters straight. There's Jean-Luc and Luuk, and Ark and Arne, so it's hard to see them as separate characters and therefore separate suspects. And Kate is rather annoying.
But I still thoroughly enjoyed it.