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White
Humanity doesn’t fight back.
It simply ends.
Tuesday an alien force—vastly superior in both technology and mysticism—wipes out nearly every human being on Earth. The attack is instantaneous, precise, and merciless. Only a handful survive.
One of them is a man who should have died with the rest.
In the aftermath, he and his only friend move through a world reduced to silence and ruin, searching for the friend’s missing daughter. As more survivors are found, a fragile family begins to form—bound together by loss, endurance, and the need to keep moving forward.
For the protagonist, survival has always been strange. In a world where everyone possessed magic, he had none—or so he believed. Yet throughout his life, he escaped situations that should have killed him, never understanding why. Even now, as the world collapses and new allies gather, he remains unaware that something impossible moves quietly through him.
When the daughter is finally found, she reveals herself as a diviner—and she knows what he does not. She believes something impossible moves through him. Beyond magic. Beyond understanding. White. And he will save them all.
He doesn’t believe her. He doesn’t want responsibility. And he certainly doesn’t believe he could save anyone.
But as the the truth becomes harder to deny. The same force that has unknowingly carried him through death again and again may be the only thing capable of stopping what comes next.
Blending science fiction and fantasy with brutal realism and psychological and metaphysical depth, White is a dark, character-driven story about survival after extinction, the weight of unseen power, and the slow discovery that love, loyalty, and understanding may be stronger than power itself.
It simply ends.
Tuesday an alien force—vastly superior in both technology and mysticism—wipes out nearly every human being on Earth. The attack is instantaneous, precise, and merciless. Only a handful survive.
One of them is a man who should have died with the rest.
In the aftermath, he and his only friend move through a world reduced to silence and ruin, searching for the friend’s missing daughter. As more survivors are found, a fragile family begins to form—bound together by loss, endurance, and the need to keep moving forward.
For the protagonist, survival has always been strange. In a world where everyone possessed magic, he had none—or so he believed. Yet throughout his life, he escaped situations that should have killed him, never understanding why. Even now, as the world collapses and new allies gather, he remains unaware that something impossible moves quietly through him.
When the daughter is finally found, she reveals herself as a diviner—and she knows what he does not. She believes something impossible moves through him. Beyond magic. Beyond understanding. White. And he will save them all.
He doesn’t believe her. He doesn’t want responsibility. And he certainly doesn’t believe he could save anyone.
But as the the truth becomes harder to deny. The same force that has unknowingly carried him through death again and again may be the only thing capable of stopping what comes next.
Blending science fiction and fantasy with brutal realism and psychological and metaphysical depth, White is a dark, character-driven story about survival after extinction, the weight of unseen power, and the slow discovery that love, loyalty, and understanding may be stronger than power itself.
317 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2026
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August 3, 2026
White is basically a post-apocalyptic story after an alien invasion, though the story only covers a few weeks of time. What unique about it is that it takes place in a sort of alternate global history where humans possess various magical abilities, to varying degrees. The central character is ‘disabled’ because he has no magical abilities.
White has several things going for it.
1. An original central concept
The alien race, their weaponry, and how they conquer the world is pretty unique and well done. And, crafting a story that in a sense reimagines the idea of a disability like this one does makes it really thought-provoking. I’d be interested to see how readers who have disabilities would react to how this story presents it.
2. Realism
It doesn’t break its own rules and does a fair job of establishing them and making them clear. Characters have to struggle with real world challenges. There are no free passes – even with the magical abilities, which are shown to have their own limitations too.
3. Unpredictable
I thought I knew where this story was going, but as it turns out, I was way off. This is the type of story that there really is no way to predict where it’s actually headed.
With those three strengths, and a few others, White seems like it could be a great story. However, it loses a few points for me because of some issues that could have been done differently.
Primarily, the biggest flaw is the pacing. The story at first appears to feature just two central characters, with the first-person perspective being the main one. But then we suddenly spend several chapters with other people, in third person, and this happens more than once.
While I’m all for stories with multiple perspectives, what ails this one isn’t that it tries to do this, but that it takes so long for the inevitable to happen. We know all these people are going to find each other eventually, but this doesn’t happen until you’re two thirds through the book.
Now, if the stories of each person up to that point had enough going for them, I wouldn’t have minded. But it really drags in the middle section, and excess time is spent dwelling on details – many of them quite gruesome - that don’t end up mattering much for the story.
This is a story of self-discovery. It is not an action story. The invasion has already happened. The self-discovery aspects work very well once everything comes together. But it takes far too long to get there.
I also wasn’t a fan of the juvenile language. Too much swearing that didn’t add anything, and just the style in general make the protag a bit too unlikeable for me.
So it’s worth reading if you like the original concept and the other strengths. I’m glad I read it because of those. If you like alien invasion stories, you’ll be interested enough in this one because of its several unique features.
White has several things going for it.
1. An original central concept
The alien race, their weaponry, and how they conquer the world is pretty unique and well done. And, crafting a story that in a sense reimagines the idea of a disability like this one does makes it really thought-provoking. I’d be interested to see how readers who have disabilities would react to how this story presents it.
2. Realism
It doesn’t break its own rules and does a fair job of establishing them and making them clear. Characters have to struggle with real world challenges. There are no free passes – even with the magical abilities, which are shown to have their own limitations too.
3. Unpredictable
I thought I knew where this story was going, but as it turns out, I was way off. This is the type of story that there really is no way to predict where it’s actually headed.
With those three strengths, and a few others, White seems like it could be a great story. However, it loses a few points for me because of some issues that could have been done differently.
Primarily, the biggest flaw is the pacing. The story at first appears to feature just two central characters, with the first-person perspective being the main one. But then we suddenly spend several chapters with other people, in third person, and this happens more than once.
While I’m all for stories with multiple perspectives, what ails this one isn’t that it tries to do this, but that it takes so long for the inevitable to happen. We know all these people are going to find each other eventually, but this doesn’t happen until you’re two thirds through the book.
Now, if the stories of each person up to that point had enough going for them, I wouldn’t have minded. But it really drags in the middle section, and excess time is spent dwelling on details – many of them quite gruesome - that don’t end up mattering much for the story.
This is a story of self-discovery. It is not an action story. The invasion has already happened. The self-discovery aspects work very well once everything comes together. But it takes far too long to get there.
I also wasn’t a fan of the juvenile language. Too much swearing that didn’t add anything, and just the style in general make the protag a bit too unlikeable for me.
So it’s worth reading if you like the original concept and the other strengths. I’m glad I read it because of those. If you like alien invasion stories, you’ll be interested enough in this one because of its several unique features.
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