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388 pp.
| Candlewick |
June, 2018 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-9745-7$17.99
(2)
YA
In the first half of a book echoing Dante's allegorical journey to hell, a magical-realism-threaded narrative alternates between Donovan trying to stay alive and Bee's later attempts to unravel what happened to Donovan, now unconscious and a suspect in his father's murder. The second half shifts--in tone and seemingly in genre--to a thriller. Readers will be engrossed in unraveling the mystery and piecing together events.
Reviewer: Christina L. Dobbs
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2018