Title: The White Oak Author: Kim White Publisher: Story Machine Studio Category: FantasyIf you enjoy nightmares and Greek mythology with a modern twist, you’ll love The White Oak. It’s dark, imaginative and creepy.The main character Cora falls through a sinkhole into the underworld, but she’s still alive in a world of the dead. The question is, how can she get out? Not only is the way out not obvious, but also her living presence threatens the tyrannical rule of Minos, who keeps souls trapped in a computer controlled city at the core of the earth. Minotaur, an artificial intelligence built by Minos, becomes her guide, but he’s not exactly trustworthy. Sybil, the writer of each person’s book of life and librarian for the underworld, and the ghost of her dead brother, a genius computer programmer, help her out, but mostly she stumbles blindly though this dark and incomprehensible world, trying to avoid the ‘authorities’ and find anything that will help her escape.Aspects of Greek … [Read more...]