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by Micol Ostow, illustrations by David Ostow
hitting shelves October 13th, 2015
from Soho Teen
Seventeen-year-old
Winnie Flynn, a closet horror fan with a starkly realistic worldview,
has never known her mom’s sister, Maggie: a high-profile reality TV
producer. But in the wake of her mother’s suicide, Winnie is recruited
by Maggie to spend a summer in New Jersey, working as a production
assistant on her current hit: Fantastic, Fearsome. At first Winnie
figures that she has nothing to lose; her father has checked out, and
Maggie is the only family she has left. But things get increasingly
weird on set as Winnie is drawn into a world of paranormal believers and
non-believers alike. Soon she learns a paranormal ability of her own:
she can psychically detect lies. The things she discovers threaten her
plan to stay under the radar, and may provide clues to her mother’s
death.
Told as an ongoing letter to a friend, with illustrations that offer clues throughout, Winnie’s story is both a heartrending mystery and a pop culture critique in the vein of Libba Bray’s Going Bovine and Beauty Queens—supplemented with illustrations throughout that recall the quirky, dark, and distinct aesthetics of Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Told as an ongoing letter to a friend, with illustrations that offer clues throughout, Winnie’s story is both a heartrending mystery and a pop culture critique in the vein of Libba Bray’s Going Bovine and Beauty Queens—supplemented with illustrations throughout that recall the quirky, dark, and distinct aesthetics of Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
My thoughts: I just met this lovely author and heard about this book and it sounds so awesome. Plus, I'm a sucker for YA books with illustrations. ;)
Wow! This one sounds really unique and is new to me. Thanks for putting it on my radar. I love a YA book with illustrations as well and since it's in the vein of Libba Bray, it sounds like a must read to me! Great pick!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds interesting. Added it to my list. I hope you like the book! Check out my WoW!
ReplyDeleteThis is so interesting! I am going to add this to my TBR pile. X3
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This sounds so interesting, I will have to add it to my TBR!
ReplyDeleteMissie @ A Flurry of Ponderings
I really like the cover but I'm not sold on the synopsis. It does sound interesting so I'll have to watch out for it.
ReplyDeleteHUH. I'm definitely curious! I do love YA with illustrations, too, though. :D
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