Reviewed by Kathleen Grace
This book starts dramatically with a girl on a rooftop
during a thunderstorm trying to revive a dead cat – at the crucial moment as
lightning flashes, the roof is on fire. This is the author’s debut novel -- highly
inventive, action-packed, and quirky, also occasionally dark.
Athena Strange’s first semester at Prometheus High
School starts with a bang. But when her lessons in reanimation, robotics, and
skulkers move too slowly, and she has trouble making friends, Athena decides to
take matters into her own hands. On a ship where science and magic collide, and
the monster under your bed is probably very real, will Athena be able to hold
her head above water?
A typical day at Prometheus High features a rusting
ocean liner, thirty students learning to resurrect the dead and a murderous
monster on the loose. At the school, magic will not fix everything.
A YA novel for those who like a challenge.
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