White Space: Book
One of The Dark Passages
By Ilsa J. Bick
Publisher: Egmont
USA
Published: Feb. 11,
2014
ASIN: B00EMX82IS
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Synopsis:
In
the tradition of Memento and Inception comes a thrilling and scary young adult
novel about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and
horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines.
Seventeen-year-old Emma Lindsay has problems: a head full of metal, no parents, a crazy artist for a guardian whom a stroke has turned into a vegetable, and all those times when she blinks away, dropping into other lives so ghostly and surreal it's as if the story of her life bleeds into theirs. But one thing Emma has never doubted is that she's real.
Then she writes "White Space," a story about these kids stranded in a spooky house during a blizzard.
Unfortunately, "White Space" turns out to be a dead ringer for part of an unfinished novel by a long-dead writer. The manuscript, which she's never seen, is a loopy Matrix meets Inkheart story in which characters fall out of different books and jump off the page. Thing is, when Emma blinks, she might be doing the same and, before long, she's dropped into the very story she thought she'd written. Trapped in a weird, snow-choked valley, Emma meets other kids with dark secrets and
Seventeen-year-old Emma Lindsay has problems: a head full of metal, no parents, a crazy artist for a guardian whom a stroke has turned into a vegetable, and all those times when she blinks away, dropping into other lives so ghostly and surreal it's as if the story of her life bleeds into theirs. But one thing Emma has never doubted is that she's real.
Then she writes "White Space," a story about these kids stranded in a spooky house during a blizzard.
Unfortunately, "White Space" turns out to be a dead ringer for part of an unfinished novel by a long-dead writer. The manuscript, which she's never seen, is a loopy Matrix meets Inkheart story in which characters fall out of different books and jump off the page. Thing is, when Emma blinks, she might be doing the same and, before long, she's dropped into the very story she thought she'd written. Trapped in a weird, snow-choked valley, Emma meets other kids with dark secrets and
Now what they must uncover is why they've been brought to this place--a world between the lines where parallel realities are created and destroyed and nightmares are written--before someone pens their end.
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My Thoughts:
Let me start off by
saying that I found this book a difficult one to review and rate. Reading it
wasn’t so much a problem, it was in being able to put my opinion into words.
There will be people
who absolutely love this book. If you are the kind of horror-junkie that likes
gore and monsters and things from nightmares, this may be the kind of book that
is right up your alley. However, if you like a book with some character development
and a little bit of plausible reality with your horror novels, you may be more
guarded in your accolades.
This novel jumps
from character to character in different places and different times where
different terrible things are happening to them. They are all eventually tied
together by the main character Emma Lindsay who turns out to be a character
from an unfinished novel. Someone is using her to pull the other characters out
of their stories for some purpose.
I found this book to
be rather long and didn’t really have an ending. I know it’s the first book in
a series, but I don’t mean the ending was a cliff-hanger, I mean it just didn’t
end. It just stopped, kind of like the way several of the other chapters ended,
where you turned the page and kept going. Only this time you turned the page
and it was blank.
White Space was definitely full of action and fast-paced. It certainly was not
boring. I have to admit however, that I had trouble keeping up with the logic
of the Nows and the whole purpose of
this convoluted story.
I gave White Space 2 stars out of a possible 5.
In my books that doesn’t make it a bad book, it’s an okay book –that’s just my
opinion. As I said earlier, there will be people who think this is a fantastic
book. I don’t read a lot of books in the horror genre, and this book is, in my
opinion, even on the outer fringes of horror.
Thank you to the
publishers for providing a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest
review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.
About the Author:
Among
other things, I was an English major in college and so I know that I'm supposed
to write things like, "Ilsa J. Bick is (fill in the blank)." Except I
hate writing about myself in the third person like I'm not in the room.
Helloooo, I'm right here . . . So let's just say that I'm a child psychiatrist
(yeah, you read that right), a wannabe surgeon, a former Air Force major--and
an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books and novels.
Believe me, no one is more shocked about this than I . . . unless you talk to
my mother.
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Your honesty will help the author grow in her craft. Although I'm a bit afraid, If I may, I will ask you to review one of my novels as well. I'll post the link below so you can take a look at it. However, if you decide to review it, I will PDF a copy to you via email. Thank you, NJ.
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