This review has been corrected-a previous version contained a typo in the illustrator's name. Agent: Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary Management. At times, Puvilland’s jagged panels take on the feeling of snapshots, reflecting Addison’s work and lending a voyeuristic quality to the story as readers follow her. Three years ago something happened to Poughkeepsie, New York. Westerfeld ( Afterworlds) establishes several compelling mysteries in this series opener, and Puvilland captures the haunting surreality of the Spill Zone through an unearthly pastel/neon palette that oozes a sense of wrongness every moment Addison spends there. 1 by Scott Westerfeld illustrated by Alex Puvilland RELEASE DATE: Taking photos of the dangers in the Spill Zone can be deadly, but it pays the bills. After an art dealer offers Addison a million dollars, she considers visiting the hospital her parents never left, even though it goes against the rules that have kept her alive. Although the area is quarantined, Addison frequently risks her life to sneak inside, using her camera to document the bizarre ways that reality has been warped within: the zombielike human “meat puppets” trapped inside, cats that seem to speak, unimaginable creatures, and defiance of the natural law around every corner. After losing her parents to the Spill Zone, an inexplicable force that has possessed Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Addison assumes care of her younger sister, Lexa, who witnessed the spill.
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