A01=Kristen Simmons
action adventure
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Author_Kristen Simmons
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Category1=Kids
Category=YFD
Category=YFHT
COP=United States
creepy
death game
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folklore
folktales
friends to enemies
ghost friend
haunted card game
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japanese inspired
japanese mythology
Language_English
meido
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Price_€10 to €20
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scary
softlaunch
survivors
teen paranormal
teenagers
underworld
work together
ya contemporary fantasy
yomi
Product details
- ISBN 9781250851123
- Weight: 356g
- Dimensions: 142 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2023
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived.
Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors - Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax - have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead.
Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished - an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.
As soon as they begin, they're dragged out of their reality and into an eerie hell scape of Japanese underworlds, more horrifying than even the darkest folktales that Owen's grandmother told him. There, they meet Shinigami, an old wise woman who explains the rules:
They have one night to complete seven challenges or they'll all be stuck in this world forever.
Once inseparable, the survivors now can’t stand each other, but the challenges demand they work together, think quickly, and make sacrifices - blood, clothes, secrets, memories, and worse.
And once again, not everyone will make it out alive.
Critically-acclaimed young adult author of more than a dozen books, including the Article Five trilogy, The Deceivers series, and The Glass Arrow, KRISTEN SIMMONS' writing is inspired by her work with trauma survivors as a mental health therapist. She currently lives with her husband and son in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she spins stories, herds a small pack of semi-wild dogs, and teaches Jazzercise.
