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Dead Water Zone
Dead Water Zone
Dead Water Zone
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Dead Water Zone

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For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam in Watertown, he learns a dark secret: something in the water is changing the residents of Watertown, transforming them into something inhuman. But can Paul reach Sam before the dark waters get to him first?

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateSep 22, 2009
ISBN9780061968389
Dead Water Zone
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Kenneth Oppel

KENNETH OPPEL is the bestselling author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and was adapted into an animated TV series and stage play. Airborn won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award; its sequel, Skybreaker, was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children’s Novel of the Year by the Times (UK). Kenneth Oppel is also the author of Half Brother, This Dark Endeavor, The Boundless, The Nest, Every Hidden Thing, Inkling and the Bloom trilogy. His latest novel is Ghostlight. Ken Oppel lives with his family in Toronto.

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    Finished Reading Add a dateReviewThis book has stuck with me for more than ten years. Re-reading, I was slightly alarmed at the writing style -- it's really not very good at all. This was one of Oppel's earliest books, and it definitely shows. The characters are somewhere in their teens, and often act younger, but then talk like roles in a play. They each have a single motivation, and occasionally reveal things about that motivation in brief speeches that are meant to sound emotional. That said, I can definitely see why the imagery stuck with me so long. That part is really, really good. The key images seemed just the same the second time, bodies changed by the water, terrible and yet strangely glorified. The water as something with a compelling aura even to the reader. Some of the themes are clunky and obvious, but there are also threads of a strange sibling relationship based on adolescents' fascination with their own bodies. Rivalry, codependence, the strange way people blame a sick person for being sick. I can't say if I'd like the book as much if I was discovering it as an adult, but I'm glad to have re-read it.

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