Or has she tripped into the nightmare of her own story? Because now Emma is trapped in a bizarre, fog-shrouded valley with other kids who have their own dark secrets and strange abilities: Eric, Casey, Bode, Rima, and a very special little girl, Lizzie. Which means she’s blinked into the head of the dead guy? No one has since the writer, killed years ago, never completed the book. Thing is, she’s never seen that manuscript. “White Space” is virtually identical to an unfinished novel about characters who jump off pages into other stories. Then she writes “White Space,” a story about these kids stranded in a spooky house during a blizzard.īut. But one thing Emma has never doubted is that she’s real. 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. “Holy freaking head trip! White Space is crazy!”– No More Grumpy Bookseller Bick takes readers on a very bizarre journey.”– Fresh Fiction WHITE SPACE is . brilliant, complex, and somewhat disturbing. Bick understands the power of this trope and uses it relentlessly in this sophisticated horror novel for older teens . “One of the marks of a classic horror story is the slow and insidious shifting of the rules within the tale’s universe.

an excellent job at conveying tension, atmosphere, and the multi-layered premise.

“Bick (the Ashes trilogy) launches the Dark Passages series with this ambitious meta-textual adventure, which invokes Stephen King levels of psychological and physical horror, while defying readers’ perceptions of reality at every turn. Nominated for the 2014 HWA Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel!

White Space by Ilsa J. Bick