My first impressions when I saw the book was that it sounded quite good and the cover made it look serious and mystic.
 

The White Darkness is about an odd fourteen year girl – Symone – who has an imaginary person inside her head, Titus Oates who was a polar explorer 90 years ago. She talks to him, sees him, and imagines that he is there because Symone is obsessed with Antarctica. 'I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now – which is ridiculous, since he has been ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I’ll be dead and then the age difference won’t matter. Besides, he isn’t dead inside my head'.

Symone lives with her Dad's colleague, Victor, because her Dad had died, although she doesn’t seem upset that he died which is very unrealistic.  Symone describes Victor as ‘The fountain of all knowledge’ and she practically worships him. ‘Uncle’ Victor says that he is going to take Symone and her Mum to Paris but just before they get on the train, Mum’s passport ‘mysteriously’ disappears. Uncle Victor and Symone leave Mum on the train platform while they go to Paris, although it turns out that Victor isn’t really interested in Paris and wants to go further.

I thought that The White Darkness  was quite a good book although I found it a bit unrealistic and the feelings that the characters show are very unrealistic. The White Darkness is an quite an easy read although not a very enjoyable one. I would say that it is for about 12 year-olds as younger readers wouldn’t understand it very well and older readers wouldn’t enjoy it. I would give it 3/10 as I didn’t enjoy it and I thought it was badly written and had far too many very long descriptions of not much.

It is a hardback book with no pictures, big writing and a deceptive front cover picture