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OF METAL AND WISHES
By: Sarah Fine
Margaret K. McElderry
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
Featuring: Wen; Melik
337 pages
ISBN: 1442483598
EAN: 9781442483590
Kindle: B00FNVSTOU
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Young Adult Paranormal | Horror
This love story for the ages, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, is a little dark, a bit breathless, and completely compelling. A βgrisly and satisfyingβ tale (Publishers Weekly) inspired by The Phantom of the Opera.
Sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic, housed in a slaughterhouse staffed by the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor. Wen often hears the whisper of a ghost in the slaughterhouse, a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. And after one of the Noor humiliates Wen, the ghost grants an impulsive wish of hersβbrutally. Guilt-ridden, Wen befriends the Noor, including the outspoken leader, a young man named Melik. At the same time, she is lured by the mystery of the ghost. As deadly accidents fuel tensions within the factory, Wen is torn between her growing feelings for Melik, who is enraged at the sadistic factory bosses and the prejudice faced by his people at the hand of Wenβs, and her need to appease the ghost, who is determined to protect her against any threatβreal or imagined. Will she determine whom to trust before the factory explodes, taking her down with it?
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