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After more than a year of searching, Rae finally has a lead on her missing father: he's being kept prisoner by the shady alternative energy company, Green On!. Now all she has to do is rescue him—even though that means battling her way through the alien-infested Watchful Woods to reach him. But her father isn't the only secret they have locked up, and if Rae wants to free him, she'll first have to make a deal with someone who has betrayed her in the past.
With the Other Place gone and all the aliens sealed within the Watchful Woods, Caden believes his family's worries are over at last—until he discovers that the magical seal keeping the creatures contained is near collapse. If they manage to escape the woods, there will be no stopping them from ravaging the town and the world beyond. Caden only has one choice: he must find a way to destroy the creatures once and for all. Even if it means destroying everything in the woods.
Including his friends.
With the fate of Whispering Pines hanging by a thread, it's a desperate race against the clock as Rae and Caden fight to save the people they love—and the strange, wonderful town they call home.
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- ISBN: 9781665921923
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- ISBN: 9781665921923
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August 15, 2023
Zombies, giant centipedes, and tentacled alien horrors come home to roost in this series closer. Determined to shove as much ick into their climactic episode as possible, Lang and Bartkowski open with a young character who's still bleeding from the incision left from cutting giant bugs out of his stomach while he was awake ("Horribly, terribly awake"). While he's fleeing a crowd of zombies spitting infectious loogies, fellow middle schoolers brave hazards ranging from tentacled trees to giant exploding centipedes in an effort to prevent partly alien creepy crawlies (which the corrupt eco-corporation Green On! is trying to weaponize) from escaping into Connecticut. For readers who delight in tales about intrepid young teens fighting multi-eyed monsters ("Rae's thumbs sank in deep. She ignored the hot splash of gooey liquid trickling down her hands and arms") or wrestling with both literal and figurative inner demons in eerie settings amid splashes of blood and ichor and the odd severed limb or cut-off scream, the town of Whispering Pines definitely merits a visit. And, just to show that it was all in fun, one humongous explosion later, nearly all the central cast staggers out alive for fence-mending ("I'm sorry I tried to drink your blood") and a pizza party. Everything but vampires...oh, wait. (Horror. 8-13)COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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