A review—Darke Matter

Darke Matter: A Novel by Rick Gekoski

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The book starts slowly but builds nicely to a satisfying conclusion. The main protagonist, James Darke, is an elderly English professor. For some reason Gekoski has him write a sequel to Gulliver's travels mid-novel. I suspect the intent was to serve as an allegory for the events threatening to consume his own life. However, I found it unwieldy and honestly struggled to read through those passages. The language and verbosity of the inner monologues were also a challenge. I found some of the main characters to be very one-dimensional but James is instantly dislikable which I enjoyed, cantankerous and rude to everybody. Overall a good tale.



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