By: Ilsa J. Bick
Genres: Young Adult Paranormal
Posted: February 8, 2014
Emma Lindsay can disappear into other worlds, blinking from one reality to another. Her blinks are tied into the life of the writer, Frank McDermott, and his daughter, Lizzie. Emma meets a large cast of characters in her blinks but will she be able to sort out what is real and what is not?
WHITE SPACE is the sort of book that will either have you gasping in awe over the clever complexity or scratching your head at what appears to be a jumbled mess. I enjoy when the point of view shifts from character to character but in WHITE SPACE not only does the point of view change but so does the reality of the characters. However, if the reader is willing to give it time, the ending is nothing short of brilliant. In fact, once I read the ending, I wanted to reread portions of WHITE SPACE to see just how neatly all the pieces fit together. I love it when an author surprises me and Ilsa J. Bick most certainly does that with WHITE SPACE. I'm a little curious to see how this will evolve as a series and if we will learn more about the Dark Passages and the host of strange inventions and creatures, such as the Peculiars. WHITE SPACE is a brilliant, complex, and somewhat disturbing as Ilsa J. Bick takes readers on a very bizarre journey.
Book Summary
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 strange abilities: Eric, Casey, Bode, Rima, and a very special little girl, Lizzie. What they discover is that they--and Emma--may be nothing more than characters written into being from an alternative universe for a very specific purpose.
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.
by: Ilsa J. Bick
Dark Passages #1 Egmont USA
February 1, 2014
On Sale: February 11, 2014
Featuring: Emma Lindsay
560 pages
ISBN: 1606844199
EAN: 9781606844199
Kindle: B00EMX82IS
Hardcover / e-Book