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A review by matt357
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
4.0
A really good shot at a modern gothic horror, which I've struggled to judge as that's not really my cup of tea.
This book writes around the event, which feels right for the style, but as a change it comes at it from several angles. Properly this is the story of one person trying to understand an event that his friends shared in and that he turned down. So we get the same event, and some amount of build up from a lot of perspectives.
This makes the story seem a lot better then it really is, as the retelling and the worsening changes really help set up the tension of the story. The book works on the whole, but that's managed by the writer's skill rescuing a thin premise
This book writes around the event, which feels right for the style, but as a change it comes at it from several angles. Properly this is the story of one person trying to understand an event that his friends shared in and that he turned down. So we get the same event, and some amount of build up from a lot of perspectives.
This makes the story seem a lot better then it really is, as the retelling and the worsening changes really help set up the tension of the story. The book works on the whole, but that's managed by the writer's skill rescuing a thin premise