All the White Spaces

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Set right after the end of World War I, All The White Spaces centers around 19-year-old transgender Jonathan Morgan(yay for representation!). Jonathan’s two older brothers were killed during the war but they always dreamed of visiting the artic. In tribute to fulfilling his deceased brother's dream, Jonathan hides as a stowaway on the Fortitude a ship set to sail for Antarctica. While on the Fortitude he meets his idol, the world-famous explorer James ‘Australis’ Randall who is the captain of the expedition. As the voyage progresses everything starts to go very wrong.The whole angle of a trans character felt performative in this case, and if you want a story that's Actually Really Good and goes into all the above details of a FtM trans MC in historical fiction, read the Leo Stanhope series by Alex Reeve. Historical adventure isn't a genre I would usually read, but the horror elements and trans man protagonist drew me in, and I'm glad they did. This was an incredibly eerie read, deeply immersive and haunted not only by a supernatural force and Antarctic isolation, but the profound impact of the First World War upon those who survived it. Split into sections based on the expedition, the novel starts slowly, building up a picture of the characters and the plans before things start to go very wrong. I did find it hard to keep up with the large cast of characters early on, maybe because this isn't the sort of narrative I'd usually read, but I managed to keep up enough to still enjoy it, and slowly some of the main characters became apparent. I think this needed some rather savage editing – there was too much of the same thing happening over and over and over again, with each repetition of ghostly visitation, aurora borealis events, howling and escaping dogs and the like, losing intensity, for me. Accomplished prose conjures up rich imagery that transports us to the end of the First World War. We meet Jonathan. Assigned female at birth, he faces challenges to behave in a certain way and his choices are constrained by his family's expectations. But when a telegram arrives and declares his brothers dead, Jonathan decides to run away. Free of those limitations, he is able to live as his true self and find his own adventures. Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

An intricately described story of loss, self-discovery and belonging in the last gasps of empire. It was wonderfully immersive; I heard every creak and was bitten by the freezing fog. All the White Spaces is a ghost story of the heart that becomes a harrowing battle for survival in malicious barrens. It reads like The Terror meets The Thing in Antarctica." - Louis Greenberg Several days into the journey Jonathan is discovered hiding on the ship, and thanks to an impassioned defence, gets the chance to prove himself to the crew. Now he has to show them that he's a capable young man, ready to face the harsh reality of a trip into the darkness of an Antarctic winter. And whilst he does well, winning over the crew and feeling like he's who he's always meant to be, strange things begin to happen on the ship as they journey ever southward. When disaster strikes and the crew is forced to abandon their ship, heading out into the frozen wilderness, things get even worse.

All the White Spaces is the brilliantly told story of Johnathan Morgan who stows away on the ship of renowned explorer James Randall and his expedition to the Antarctic. Johnathan’s brothers were obsessed with Randall and his daring exploits, wanting nothing more to return from the war and join his crew. When both Rufus and Francis die from their wounds overseas, Johnathan knows he must fulfill that dream for them. As their ship gets closer to the Antarctic, there is a strange sense of unease on the ship. When disaster strikes the crew has no choice but to abandon ship and find somewhere to survive in the frozen landscape. As darkness descends the expedition soon fear they are not alone – is there something hunting them or is the cruel frozen landscape driving them mad? So these 6 characters are covered by the list in the second regex, \u180B|\u200B|\u200C|\u200D|\u2060|\uFEFF. The story follows Jonathan Morgan, a young trans man whose life is forever changed when he and his parents get the news that his two older brothers, currently away fighting in World War One, aren't coming home ever again. Still forced to hide who he really is, and facing the prospect of being sent to a finishing school to teach him to become a 'proper' young lady, Jonathan reaches out to his friend, and friend of his lost brothers, Harry Cooper to help him.

Hang onto your seats, All The White Spaces is one wild ride! Full of unexpected twists and turns, this book is full of entertainment. Mixed with equal parts of historical fiction, coming of age, thriller, mystery, and even horror this genre-bending novel is filled with so many elements that it's impossible to nail it down to just one. Finally, white-space: pre-line; will break lines where they break in code, but extra white space is still stripped. Together Jonathan and Harry make their way across the world, aiming to meet up with and join the latest Antarctic expedition of the legendary explorer James 'Australis' Randall. Jonathan grew up watching his brothers idolise Randall, always dreaming of joining him on one of his journeys south. Feeling lost in the world, desperate to become his true self, and wanting to feel closer to his brothers, Jonathan decides that sneaking onto the expedition will help him. As the expedition leaves any signs of civilisation behind, tension aboard the Fortitude increases. Despite his reputation, not everyone totally trusts him, and the weather conditions are not looking good with too much sea-ice for the time of year, but it's once the Ice proper is reached that things start to go really wrong. A fire forces the crew to leave the ship, taking sleds and heading for the base of a rival German expedition, but this is found empty, and seemingly haunted by ghosts which call men out onto the ice and into terrible danger.This book strongly remined me of The Terror and it was difficult not to compare this book with that book. There are differences of course, but at its core it about men on a ship, fighting the cold, stranded, up against danger, up To remove any whitespace characters (' \t\n\r\x0b\x0c') you can use the following function: import string timeit('"".join(functools.reduce(lambda acc, c: acc if c in ws else acc+c, "strip my spaces"))', SETUP) Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition in this haunting and spellbinding historical horror novel, perfect for fans of Dan Simmons’s The Terror and Alma Katsu’s The Hunger . The narrator had a bizarre choice of accent, no idea what that was. It was semi-British but not, and the book delivered in such a hushed tone that it was like they recorded it in secret, under the bedcovers, past bedtime. Zero inflection and it all just ran together. I don't even know what the explanation was, in the end.

All the White Spaces is a sly and unsettling gem of a book that makes for an immersive read. The storytelling is as taut as the setting is stark, and rife with creeping dread. Despite the blazing summer heat, I was chilled to the bone while reading it, and could not put it down. I loved every frostbitten word!" - Camilla Bruce In CSS3, the white-space property is literally going to follow that chart and map the properties to text-space-collapse and text-wrap accordingly. More information I appreciated how slow the horrifying elements this contained were to appear and how the reader was intimately introduced to the characters and this world first. I felt I understood ship life, the placement for each individual, and their interpersonal relationships well enough so that any initial confusion was waylaid long before the insidious elements were drip-fed into the novel.A few minor points of critique keep this novel from being a full 5-star experience for me. The pacing throughout the first half could’ve been improved, shortening the introduction a bit, to match the latter half better. I also found some of the dialogue to be a little clunky, but not to the point where it was bothersome. Set just after World War II, All the White Spaces follows Jonathan Morgan - a young trans man still reeling from the loss of his two beloved older brothers, In an attempt to honour his brothers' memory - and to find his own way outside of his parents' expectations -, Jonathan convinces family friend Harry to help him stows away on an Antarctic expedition, led by his brothers' hero Lord Randall. But, of course, disaster strikes and the crew find themselves stranded in the vast, frozen no man's land, with no hope of rescue, dwindling supplies and - soon enough - a very dwindling number of men. Because there's something ghost-like lurking beneath the Aurora Borealis and, under its influence, there's no telling who Jonathan can trust. Not even himself... On a positive note, the writing was deeply atmospheric. I could feel the cold and the despair of this crew stranded in a brutal and unforgiving place. Ally Wilkes created a superb atmospheric novel. At times I truly felt as if I was with Jonathan in the artic. I loved the fact that the main character is a transgender young man. I enjoyed following him as he became comfortable in his skin. As far as the element of horror, it's nothing violent or too graphic whatsoever. Our main focus is young Jonathan Morgan, left behind during the War, who follows famed explorer Randall on his journey to Antarctica. From the outset things seem tense, with certain members of the party resentful of some of those invited. When their ship is burned, the men are forced to strike out for an unchartered space. As they prepare to overwinter in this inhospitable area, it becomes clear that someone - or something - is threatening this group.