- Fantasy, Animals, Spirits, Orphans
A young girl's midnight séance awakens a long-slumbering malevolent spirit.... A band of runaway orphans allies with an underground collective of saboteurs and plans a daring rescue of their friends, imprisoned in the belly of an industrial wasteland.
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Epic, classical in form, grave and richly built.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Colin Meloy
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, HarperCollins Publishers, Balzer + Bray
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670075171
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