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Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld
3.0

Spill Zone follows a teen who's forced to enter the "Spill Zone" to take photos of an area that has been destroyed by a radiation spill, so that she can sell her photos for the money required to raise her younger sister on her own.

I don't know exactly how I feel about this graphic novel. On the one hand, I want to know more about what happened, and what all of these things and people in the Spill Zone are. I feel lost and like I was dumped right into the action with no explanation, which I enjoy sometimes, but didn't love in this instance. On top of that, the characters felt very simplistic and I absolutely hated the art style.

Negatives aside, though, I'm endlessly fascinated by Lexa's terrifying little doll friend, and the ending actually felt more horror than sci-fi, which was fun, so I'll probably continue the series if my library system has the next volume.