Thin Air: The most chilling and compelling ghost story of the year

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Paver does a good job mimicking the voice of a British explorer in the George Mallory/Edmund Hillary vein (or rather such a man's slightly more sympathetic younger brother). Besides Stephen, and sometimes Major Cotterell, I didn't like any of the white members of the expedition. This is the second of Paver's historical horrors that I have now read, and I remain equally as impressed by both. They are following on an earlier disastrous Edwardian expedition where a number of the climbers died.

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Grab this book and snuggle up tight under the covers – and resist the urge to pull back the curtains and look out the window; you never know what might be staring back at you. The one who inherited the family estate, who had everything come easily to him and who dislikes weakness.There's just something about the bleakness, the sheer depth of the isolation and the unfamiliarity of this terrain to me that I love in this book. Michelle Paver's Dark Matter is one of my favourite ghost stories, but I admit, when I heard about Thin Air, I had doubts that she could recreate the same magic. Her books don’t spend tons of time on character development, but somehow she fits more than she seemingly should be able to for as short as these books are.

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She is the author of Without Charity, A Place in the Hills, The Shadow Catcher and Fever Hill all published by Corgi. Powerful, creepy, evocative – rest assured, Thin Air proves a more than worthy follow up to Dark Matter!

After finding herself mesmerised by the history, vastness and the terrifying solitude of the Himalayas, Michelle Paver uses it as the setting for this undeniably gripping account of a 1935 expedition up Kangchenjunga. Led by Stephen’s popular older brother Kits, a conventional sahib, it’s a ghost story to chill and thrill. With that said, I enjoyed this story immensely but when it's all said and done, it didn't 'wow' me like I was hoping for. Paver's suspenseful tale telling is wonderfully effective, leaving the reader with an increased feeling of unease as the expedition progresses. The Sherpas are laughed at because of their beliefs, it turns out though that prayers and superstition are the only defence against what’s up on that mountain.

Thin Air: The most chilling and compelling ghost story of the Thin Air: The most chilling and compelling ghost story of the

Thin Air is a proper ghost story, the good old-fashioned type, to be read under a blanket with a candle flickering, and every detail of its creepy, compelling tale is note-perfect - the historical detail, the slow build-up, the delicious dread of the spooky scenes. After loving Paver's previous book, Dark Matter I was really looking froward to this, however I found it rather lacking. This is similar, the tension tightens slowly, with the turn of every page, until you cannot put the book down.Our group is trying to reach to summit of the yet unconquered third highest peak of the Himalayas, retracing the steps of a previously ill-fated team. The hugely successful Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series arose from Michelle's lifelong passion for animals, anthropology and the distant past—as well as an encounter with a large bear in a remote valley in southern California. I am not a fan of Horror and or guts and gore just a good old fashioned Ghost Story is what floats my boat. I’ll try again with her other ghost story, Dark Matter, about an Arctic expedition from the same time period.