The White Darkness

The White Darkness

By Geraldine McCaughrean

Pages: 373

ISBN: 978-0-06-089037-7

Genre: Action/ Adventure

Setting: Antarctica

The White Darkness written from a Sym’s perspective. Sym, a typical teenage girl with her own quirks, some may say she isn’t typical but she is. Sym has her own interests and views and lives by them. Sym loves Antarctica or so she thought. Sym lives with her Mom and her “Uncle Victor”, who really isn’t her uncle but her father’s best friend. He took care of Sym like she was his very own. Uncle Victor tricks Sym’s mother and get’s her to Paris. There he tells her that they are going south for a few weeks. He reveals that south really means Antarctica. Naturally of course Sym is excited, she gets to go to a place that she only dreamed of going.

Once arriving in Antarctica she finds beauty in all of it. She learns of people through observation, because Sym is a shy individual and likes to keep to herself. Well, except when it comes to Sigurd. Sigurd, the son of a movie maker seems to take an interest in Sym and she doesn’t mind a bit. After the first week in Antarctica there is a change in the attitude of those who have visited the contentment. Before Sym knows it here Uncle is waking her up in the middle of the night for an adventure to find the hole that leads to the center of the earth, which is hollow. It has a happy ending.

I really didn’t like this book it was awful. I wouldn’t recommend it. I would much rather spend my time reading something else. I didn’t like this book because I felt like it took pages upon pages to explain something that could have been explained in a paragraph. I felt like the book was dull and when it was about to get exciting all excitement would die in a matter a few words.