![]() X who is responsible for releasing dark energy that could cause the end of the world. If Dulcie is to be believed, Cameron must find the mysterious Dr. Who wants to read a 480-page novel about a 16-year-old who has four to six months to live and suffers from progressive muscle weakness, dementia and delusions?īut Libba Bray, author of the best-selling gothic-fantasy-romance Gemma Doyle trilogy, manages to turn a hopeless situation into a hilarious and hallucinatory quest, featuring an asthmatic teenage dwarf, Gonzo a pink-haired angel in combat boots, Dulcie and Balder, a Norse god who is cursed with the form of a garden gnome. The narrator, Cameron, a self-proclaimed slacker (“I’m a drifter - right downstream and over the falls with the rest of the driftwood”), learns that he has contracted a fatal condition: Creutzfeldt-Jakob, or mad cow, disease (as it’s known in animals). Printz Award for young adult literature, announced last month by the American Library Association, begins with an off-putting premise. You could say that this year’s winner of the Michael L. ![]()
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