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The White Darkness

Reviewed by Sam Brewer


This book is about four people going on an expedition to Antarctica, the four members are Sym, Sigurd, Manfred Bruch and Victor. But also Sym has an imaginary friend in her mind, called Titus.

I choose because I thought from reading the cover there would be a girl in the book that you could relate the front cover to: but you couldn’t.

What happens is this book is all four of them go on a voyage to Antarctica and during this Victor seemed nice to start off with but in the end he was evil and he killed someone.

What they aim to find on this expedition is Symmes’s hole.

‘What became of me when I went outside into the blizzard? Did I put on the wings of snow?’
‘No, Titus.’
‘Or get trampled by the stampeding ghosts of all those poor ponies I slaughtered?’
‘No.’
‘Was I suckled like Romulus and Remus, maybe, by a colony of cheerful dinosaurs?’
‘No, Titus.’

This is conversation between Titus and Sym. 

At the start the book went downhill and I did not really understand it; I thought it would get better but unfortunately it did not. I read the whole book and did not like it at all.

All in all I would give this book 3/10.