Wasley Robin - Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A painfully average teen's life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this thrilling moving and fantastical (Kirkus Reviews starred review) novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Rest of Us Just Live Here. High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate. Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile all Sid has to deal with is hair - ruining humidity painful awkwardness being one of four Asians in town and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other just days after one of the most humiliating romantic rejections faced by anyone ever in all of history. Then someone kills one of the Guardians who protect the seal. The earth rips open and unleashes the magic trapped inside. Monsters crawl from the ground no one can enter or leave and the man behind it all is roaming the streets with a gang of violent vigilantes. Suddenly Sid's life becomes a lot less ordinary. When she finds out her missing brother is involved she joins the remaining Guardians desperate to find him and close the fault line for good. Fighting through hordes of living corpses and uncontrollable growths of forest Sid and a ragtag crew of would - be heroes are the only thing standing between their town and the end of the world as they know it. Between magic murderers and burgeoning crushes Sid must survive being a perfectly normal girl caught in a perfectly abnormal apocalypse. Only how can someone so ordinary make it in such an extraordinary world?
Title: Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear
Author(s): Wasley Robin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781665914604
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 2/13/2024
Category: Personal & Social Issues: Family Issues (Children's / Teenage)