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A mastery of monsters / Liselle Sambury.
While investigating her brother's mysterious disappearance, eighteen-year-old August teams up with a shapeshifting boy to infiltrate a secret society of monsters and those who control them.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781665957366 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 580 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2025.
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| Target Audience Note: | 014+. |
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| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Young adult fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | YA Sambu | 31681010429421 | YADULT | Available | - |
- Simon and Schuster
Two starred reviews!
Ninth House meets Legendborn in this âbold and bloodyâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) first book in a dark academia fantasy series about a teen whoâs willing to do anything to find her brotherâeven infiltrate a secret society full of monsters.
When Augustâs brother disappears before his sophomore semester, everyone thinks the stress of college got to him. But August knows her brother would never have left her voluntarily, especially not after their mother so recently went missing.
The only clue he left behind was a note telling her to stay safe and protect their remaining family. And after August is attacked by a ten-foot-tall creature with fur and claws, she realizes that her brother might be in more danger than she could have imagined.
Unfortunately for her, the only person with a connection to the mysterious creature is the bookish Virgil Hawthorneâ¦and he knows about them because he is one. If he doesnât find a partner to help control his true nature, heâll lose his humanity and become a mindless beastâexactly what the secret society heâs grown up in would love to put down.
Virgil makes a proposition: August will join his society and partner with him, and in return, heâll help her find her brother. And so August is plunged into a deadly competition to win one of the few coveted candidate spots, all while trying to accept a frightening reality: that monsters are real, and she has to learn to master them if sheâs to have any hope of saving her brother.
