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Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Annotation: Lori Fisher hunts monsters, aided by an interdimensional creature called Handler, but when she stumbles across the Nix, a kidnapped group of mutant teens, she becomes the hunted.
Genre: [Science fiction]
 
Reviews: 5
Catalog Number: #154570
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2018
Edition Date: 2018 Release Date: 03/06/18
Pages: 292 pages
ISBN: 1-534-40016-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-534-40016-0
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2017017802
Dimensions: 24 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist (Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 CST 2017)

Within one short week, five diverse teens with supernatural abilities, from superstrength to elasticity, bond as a team and defeat an ancient deity who is bent on destroying the human race in order to be released from a millennia-long curse. Chapters are divided into the days of this extraordinary week, wherein this newly formed set of superheroes iling from different cultures, parts of the world, and socio-economic groups, as well as having different physical abilities ve one another's backs when it matters. There are subplots about losing parents and dealing with grief (or not), being different from one's teen peers, and being LGBTQ; but the sometimes-slimy action only slows and never stops to spend much time developing them. Also, the "villain" is caught in a situation that, once understood, makes it a little difficult for readers not to empathize, and challenges middle-school students to explore gray areas of right and wrong. Readers will enjoy the mix of text messages into the prose, and those who like mythology incorporated into fantasy plots can encounter Babylonian deities here.

Horn Book (Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2019)

Alien "feeders" hunt the citizens of Santa Dymphna, and it's up to sixteen-year-old Lori and interdimensional creature Handler to stop them. When Lori finds a group of captive super-powered teens, she quickly learns that there are bigger dangers. The action proceeds at breakneck speed; a cast of racially and physically diverse characters and an emphasis on self-acceptance raise the novel above standard sci-fi adventure.

Kirkus Reviews

Weekes offers a novel set in a strange reality full of unseen forces wreaking havoc.To support herself and her little brother, Lori works with a creature called Handler to hunt the titular feeders, monsters that literally hollow humans out. On what should be a routine assignment for the Lake Foundation, Lori makes a powerful enemy in Tia Lake when she stumbles upon five teenagers trapped in a shipping container and sets them free. Turns out these teens possess special powers ranging from superstrength to camouflage. Tia has plans for them, and she's not letting them—or Lori—go without a fight. The teens have three days to figure out what Tia wants and how to bring down Lake Foundation or risk losing their lives in a most dreadful manner. With a mysteriously altered world and creatures that jump dimensions, Weekes creates an intriguing setting, but the novel falters in its development of its diverse cast of characters of various ethnicities and sexual orientations. One character uses a wheelchair, and another is transgender. Lori herself is part white and part Chinese. However, Weekes' handling of diversity can get clunky. While trying to subvert stereotypes, his characters sometimes play into them instead. Interestingly, each teen's power correlates to some very real struggle in their personal life that Weekes makes an effort to explore.This has the makings of a fun, creative novel, but the execution leaves something to be desired. (Science fiction. 14-18)

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

In the canal city of Santa Dymphna in the Pacific Northwest, 16-year-old Lori Fisher supports herself and her younger brother by hunting down alien beings called feeders with her interdimensional partner, Handler, who communicates with her via text message. While hunting feeders, which take over human bodies to gruesome effect, Lori frees a group of superpowered teenagers called the Nix; they team up to stop their captor, who has nefarious plans for them. Set in a world altered by rising sea levels, this first YA novel from Weekes (the Rogues of the Republic trilogy) is chock-full of pop culture references (one of the Nix -might have wished for Captain Marvel, but she got Professor X-) and diverse characters. Brazilian Iara uses a wheelchair, Filipino Hawk is bulletproof, and sparks fly between sharp-tongued shape-shifter Maya and ultracompetent Lori. The worldbuilding is thin, but the video-game-quick action scenes crackle with energy, and the banter among the heroes is rapid-fire as Weekes uses the action-adventure setup to explore self-acceptance, friendship, and what it means to be human. Ages 14-up. Agent: David Hale Smith, Inkwell Management. (Mar.)

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Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)
Reading Level: 7.0
Interest Level: 9-12
Lexile: 850L

A monster-hunter teams up with super-powered teens to protect her brother in this fast-paced adventure novel that’s X-Men meets Men in Black.

Lori Fisher hunts monsters. Not with a sword or a gun, but with an interdimensional creature called Handler. Together they take down “feeders”—aliens who prey on mankind. When Lori touches a feeder, Handler’s impossibly large jaws appear and drag the beast into another dimension.

It’s a living—or was, until a job for the Lake Foundation goes wrong, and Lori stumbles across the Nix, a group of mutant teenagers held captive on the docks. Now the Lake Foundation is hunting Lori, and if they find Lori, they find Ben, the brother Lori would do anything to protect. There’s only one thing to do: strike first.

Lori teams up with the Nix to take on Lake, and to discover why the Nix were kidnapped in the first place. But as she watches their powers unfold, Lori realizes the Nix are nothing like her. She has no powers. She has…Handler. Maybe she’s not the monster hunter after all. Maybe she’s just the bait.


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