![]() ![]() Thin Air is grand but it’s almost a repeat of Dark Matter. There’s no outright gore or guns blazing or hacking a zombie in half with a machete.Īnd while I’m all for the decapitation of the living dead, I do love my subtle horror.ĭark Matter will always remain my favourite of the three books. She has a way of writing horror that could have been found in the era of classic ghost stories. A colleague introduced me via Dark Matter and I adored it. Spanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl’s longing to fly free. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen – and the even more nightmarish demons of her father’s past. When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. ![]()
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