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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 7 Up—Aoife Grayson is terrified that she will go mad when she turns 16. She believes that she carries a latent form of a necrovirus that has already affected her brother, who has disappeared, and her mother, who is locked up in a madhouse. The setting is an alternate version of New England, where Boston is known as Lovecraft, a town powered by a mysterious underground engine and ruled by Proctors who enforce a rationalistic worldview that denies the existence of magic, blames madne...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
In this steampunk-meets-fairy-tale fantasy, Aoife's mother and brother have both gone mad. Aoife searches for her brother, falls...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
