The Dickens Mirror: Book Two of The Dark Passages, by Ilsa J. Bick
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The Dickens Mirror: Book Two of The Dark Passages, by Ilsa J. Bick
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Critically acclaimed author of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick takes her new Dark Passages series to an alternative Victorian London where Emma Lindsay continues to wade through blurred realities now that she has lost everything: her way, her reality, her friends. In this London, Emma will find alternative versions of her friends from the White Space and even Arthur Conan Doyle.Emma Lindsay finds herself with nowhere to go, no place to call home. Her friends are dead. Eric, the perfect boy she wrote into being, and his brother, Casey, are lost to the Dark Passages. With no way of knowing where she belongs, she commands the cynosure, a beacon and lens that allows for safe passage between the Many Worlds, to put her where she might find her friends--find Eric--again. What she never anticipated was waking up in the body of Little Lizzie, all grown up--or that, in this alternative London, Elizabeth McDermott is mad. In this London, Tony and Rima are "rats," teens who gather the dead to be used for fuel. Their friend, Bode, is an attendant at Bedlam, where Elizabeth has been committed after being rescued by Arthur Conan Doyle, a drug-addicted constable. Tormented by the voices of all the many characters based on her, all Elizabeth wants is to get rid of the pieces under her skin once and for all. While professing to treat Elizabeth, her physician, Dr. Kramer, has actually drugged her to allow Emma--who's blinked to this London before--to emerge as the dominant personality . . . because Kramer has plans. Elizabeth is the key to finding and accessing the Dickens Mirror. But Elizabeth is dying, and if Emma can't find a way out, everyone as they exist in this London, as well as the twelve-year-old version of herself and the shadows--what remains of Eric, Casey, and Rima that she pulled with her from the Dark Passages--will die with her.Releases simlutaneously in electronic book format (978-1-60684-422-9)
The Dickens Mirror: Book Two of The Dark Passages, by Ilsa J. Bick- Amazon Sales Rank: #1289354 in Books
- Brand: Bick, Ilsa J.
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.60" w x 5.80" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 576 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—This follow-up to Bick's chilly, multilayered psychological horror novel White Space (Egmont USA, 2014) moves most of the action to a fog-bound and filthy Victorian London insane asylum. With food scarce and time running out, reality is chancy and remade all the time, accidentally and on purpose. The fabric of time and personhood seem to be slowly crumbling, as characters face multiple versions of themselves and their memories, desperately trying to align a multiverse of malevolent fears, dangers, and manipulators. A bold and exciting premise, but in execution this work doesn't hold up, despite a welcome infiltration by none other than a version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, complete with a talking Black Dog tattooed his right bicep. It's difficult to sustain much engagement or sympathy with the characters, especially when many of them are just facets of one another. There are some satisfactory resolutions, but where White Space used frustration and tedium to maintain tension, here the plot is so convoluted that most of the tension drains out.—Katya Schapiro, Brooklyn Public Library
About the Author Ilsa J. Bick is a child psychiatrist, film scholar, former Air Force major, and now a full-time author. Her critically acclaimed, award-winning YA novels include The Ashes Trilogy, Draw the Dark, Drowning Instinct, and The Sin-Eater's Confession. Ilsa currently lives in rural Wisconsin, near a Hebrew cemetery. One thing she loves about the neighbors: they're very quiet and only come around for sugar once in a blue moon.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Utterly phenomenal; Bick's done it again! By Bibliotropic .net Continuing from where White Space left off, Emma is now trapped in the mind of Elizabeth, who is in turn trapped inside an asylum in an alternate-universe Victoria London that is besieged by a strange thick fog and a dreaded rotting disease. Rima, Tony, and Bode are also there, but as though they grew up in that London, rather than as the characters we got to know in the previous book. Kramer is still after the secret of the Dickens Mirror and the ability to jump to different Nows.This book is a brain-bender, and I'm not exaggerating. Firstly, there’s all the ideas that got introduced during White Space. That book-worlds can yield real people. That characters in books can create characters of their own and in turn become real. That real people can have pieces of themselves put into characters in books and thus share a deep link with them. That time is an illusion. That’s all still in there, and is fundamental to understanding what’s going on. Then you add in a tweak on dissociative identity disorder, the question of whether characters are more real than the people who created them, and whether or not I as the reader am even real or whether Ilsa Bick is still writing me!(No, seriously, I actually had a moment during this book where I doubted my own reality. The Dickens Mirror may go down in my personal history as the only novel to give me an existential crisis.)Then it goes on to get even more meta with the ending, when Emma is sitting in a bookstore listening to an author talk about her new novel, The Dickens Mirror, and how it plays with multiverse theory, and Emma thinks that she hates it when characters in books have the same name as her. And while it’s a lovely little tongue-in-cheek scene, it also begs the question as to whether or not that Emma is the primary Emma, or whether that’s even an applicable question because of course she can’t be, she’s just a character in the book I’m reading, OH WAIT MY BRAIN HURTS AGAIN!This is what you’re in for when you read this series. And I strongly recommend you do. It’s phenomenal, one of the best YA series to come along in years, and tragically underappreciated because it involves a highly complex plot that many people just don’t seem to be able to wrap their heads around. It’s not a light read. It may require you to keep notes so that the converging plotlines and multi-dimensional versions of characters keep making sense. It’s the kind of series you read when you want something utterly out of the ordinary, something to challenge you and your fundamental beliefs about reality and the nature of being. It introduces some advanced ideas that aren’t simple to comprehend and are even more difficult to apply.But here’s the thing. If you can fall into the right headspace, throw aside your understanding of reality and just let the story carry you along, it still all makes sense. It’s a mind-twister for certain, but it’s still a cohesive story that gets a solid conclusion within the boundaries it sets for itself. It’s not trite. It’s disturbing on multiple levels, both with stomach-churning imagery and thought-churning quantum theory. I think it works best for people who already know how to look at the world sideways, who look at life from different angles and who don’t just accept things as they are because that’s what everyone says is so. It’s for people who love to ask questions and be challenged by the answers. And it’s a series with amazing reread potential, something with earlier scenes you can probably read completely differently when you already know the truth.I can’t recommend White Space and The Dickens Mirror enough, I really can’t. Bick works wonders here, true wonders, and I have immense respect for someone who can sit down and hold this entire story in their head while writing it out. Take your time with this one, let the amazing characters and the outstanding story sweep you away, keep copious notes, and enjoy the ride. I’ve found a gem among gems, a novel with wide cross-genre appeal, and while it may take some getting used to, it’s worth every last second.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Dickens Mirror By Sarah (Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Egmont USA and NetGalley.)“Tell me where the mirror is and how to use it,”This was a very odd story, in fact it might have been stranger than the first book.There were multiple characters in this, and characters who were doubles – so we had 2 ‘Tony’s for instance, and it was all very confusing as to which character was which, how they related to each other, and even how to keep them straight when one character claimed to be both Elizabeth and Emma.“Just because you keep waking up in the same body? How do you know that whatever you wake up in is yours?The storyline in this was very confusing, with strange settings, and even stranger conversations. We had characters who weren’t sure if they were real or whether they were the product of an author’s imagination, weird discussions about whether dreams meant that you were real or unreal, and just generally what seemed like utter nonsense. I had hoped that we’d get some answers in this book as to what was going on, but I’ve finished it and I’m still pretty lost.“I knew it. We’re the originals. These others are only impostors and pieces.”6 out of 10
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Amazing text. Love reading a text that stretches your ... By Jacqueline McMahon Amazing text. Love reading a text that stretches your thinking.
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