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Watts, Leander

Beautiful City of the Dead

256 pp. | Houghton | July, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-618-59443-4 $16.00
(4) YA When Zee joins a band led by a charismatic new friend, she discovers that she is a water god, thus completing the band's elemental "tetrad" (fire, earth, wind, water). When an older, sinister tetrad covets Zee, it leads to a deadly struggle. The plot is scattered, and Zee's character blandly malleable, but Watts's atmospheric effects are consistently intriguing, lending depth to both.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross

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