Spill Zone

Will definitely be an attention grabber for students - the action is faced paced and the mystery is still a cliff-hanger by the end. It's genuinely creepy and the art and color story is in good service to the plot and creep-factor. Scott's dialogue was better in the Uglies series. He had some truly bad repeated catchphrases in the Leviathan series and the same is true here here as well, particularly the doll's stilted dialogue - is she cussing or saying fudge, which is it? I'm also all for authentic swears in a teen book, but this just feels like he threw in a few F*'s to try to edge-up the book, they didn't land well and felt unnecessary a few times. Overall, interested to see where this series goes.