![]() ![]() Can Emma and her companions escape the monster he released? Bick’s doorstopper mixes provocative ideas from Inkheart and the movies The Matrix and Inception with a little Charles Dickens, but it doesn’t give readers much in the way of character or plot to hang onto through huge swaths of the tale. ![]() Reality keeps shifting, and motifs keep repeating, and everything is tied to dead horror author Frank McDermott and the bizarre and bloody way he wrote his stories. Taking off on a trip with her friend Lily, Emma gets caught in a freak snowstorm, and she finds her survival, her fate and even her past entwined with those of seven strangers. With a head full of metal that causes migraines and occasional blackouts, 17-year-old Emma makes the best of her life at Holten Prep until one of her teachers accuses her of plagiarizing a dead writer’s unfinished and inaccessible manuscript. When what’s real keeps shifting in monstrous ways, can Emma find her way home? Can she even hold on to sanity and self? ![]()
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