Val becomes enamored with Eli despite the lead singer’s anti-Hollow stance. On their way, they meet No Flash Photography, one of the bands. Zoey, Celeste, Jasmine, and Valeria, who all suffer from Hollowness, are headed to the Desert Bloom music festival in the Mojave Desert. Fortunately, lab-grown SynFlesh allows them to lead mostly normal lives.
Those affected by the Hollowing developed the need and desire to consume human flesh. Two years ago, humanity was forever changed when melting permafrost unleashed a strange pathogen.
14 & up)Ĭalifornia victims of a climate change–induced pandemic uncover a deadly plot. Secrets and mad scientists offer a gory gothic adventure. The experiments are more fiction than science, and Juliet contradicts her supposed delicacy by dispatching threats with chemistry and violence, but the fast pace of the story overpowers the minor imperfections. Hyde and Frankenstein draw readers’ attention to the classics and may provoke discussions about medical ethics and split personalities. Although heavy-handed, Shepherd’s unsubtle allusions to The Strange Case of Dr. Amid a whirlwind of romance, fancy dresses and death, Juliet uncovers a vast conspiracy that stretches into the highest ranks of society and touches everyone she knows.
Juliet finds herself torn again between her love for the faithful (if secretive) Montgomery and the tortured Edward Prince, who shifts between boy and Beast. When her former persecutors fall victim to a serial killer, Juliet suspects that someone or something made it off the island. Her father is gone-killed by her own hand-but his medical misconduct and her former poverty are not forgotten. Not content to relax in the well-appointed home of her guardian, professor von Stein, or to shop and gossip with her friend, Lucy Radcliffe, 17-year-old Juliet sneaks away to the slums to experiment in anatomy, botany and chemistry. Juliet Moreau struggles with monsters, morals and family tragedy in this moving, if melodramatic sequel ( The Madman’s Daughter, 2013).
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