{"id":1178,"date":"2014-09-16T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2015-06-22T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:00:03","slug":"white-space-teen-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2014\/white-space-teen-review\/","title":{"rendered":"White Space — teen review"},"content":{"rendered":"

–review by Kara, teen reviewer<\/p>\n

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White Space<\/em> by Ilsa J. Bick<\/h2>\n

\"five-stars\"<\/p>\n

I\u2019d tell you the plot, but I don\u2019t really understand it.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, this book drew a lot of inspiration from The Matrix and Inception (or at least that\u2019s what the back of the book said). It\u2019s similar to Inception in terms of confusion (I feel like if I read it again, things would make more sense, but it\u2019s 560 pages so I\u2019m not particularly motivated to). It\u2019s meant to be a horror novel, and at points I did get scared, but most of the time I was too preoccupied trying to understand the book to be that scared.<\/p>\n

The author kind of just drops you in a puddle of confusion, and generally, if books start out like this, things start to make sense soon after (or at least get more orderly). Nope. It took 350 pages for me to start to understand what might be going on with this one. It\u2019s frustrating when you expect a good scary story and all you can do is think about physics and try to make all these connections that get all tangled up.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s redeeming quality is its creepiness. If it\u2019s not horrific, it\u2019s at least chilling. It has all sorts of different scary stuff for different people, so if you\u2019re not afraid of corporeal things, there\u2019s probably some incorporeal fear that is similar to your own. If nothing else, it\u2019ll at least make you pause before looking at your reflection in a mirror. But, like I said, the task of trying to figure out what was going on eclipsed the horror.<\/p>\n

Overall, I don\u2019t really recommend it unless you\u2019re looking for a horror novel that\u2019s scary but is incredibly confusing. 5 stars. –Kara, teen reviewer<\/p>\n

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Find the book in our library: White Space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

–review by Kara, teen reviewer White Space by Ilsa J. Bick I\u2019d tell you the plot, but I don\u2019t really understand it. As far as I can tell, this book drew a lot of inspiration from The Matrix and Inception (or at least that\u2019s what the back of the book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teen-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2014\/09\/white-space.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-j0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":544,"url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2014\/sound-and-the-fury-teen-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":1178,"position":0},"title":"Sound and the Fury — Teen Review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"May 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"--review by Josh, teen reviewer The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Grammatical rules become non-existent, time irrelevant, and confusion normal in this emotionally-charged novel about a family and their mentally retarded son; but goddamn, it's sure done well. 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