My first impression of the book was that it looked quite good but for an older reader. The writing was reasonably large and spaced out. The book was 262 pages long – that doesn’t sound like that much but when I was reading it felt like a lot more as it was a very slow read and took me two weeks to read and I am usually quite a fast reader.

When I had read the first page I already knew that this wasn’t going to be your normal average book. It started off on the first page by saying ‘I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now – which is ridiculous, since he’s been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I’ll be dead, too, and then the age difference won’t matter.’  This was the very first thing that the book said and it immediately tells you a lot: this book is going to be very unusual. The book has a lot of unusual twists but not all good ones. Just when you think you understand the characters and the story there is suddenly a twist which makes you confused once again.

The White Darkness is about a very strange fourteen-year-old girl. At the start of the book it talks about her past and how her father died. She doesn’t seem to be that upset about the death of her father because he was disappointed in her; I think it is very unrealistic because it doesn’t matter how much you hate your mother or your father you still love them and if they died you would be upset. When she finds out that her father has died she starts to imagine Titus Oates in her head.

She is also quite happy having her Dad’s best friend become her new fatherly figure and is more than pleased when Victor offers to take her and her mum to Paris even though her mum doesn’t seem so keen. Will her weekend trip to Paris really just be a fun tourist weekend – climbing the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe – or will it turn out to be a very long unusual trip?