Book description
Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you.
The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox-call her Willie-and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history about a youngâŠ
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1 author picked Devils Unto Dust as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book fills the wilds of Texas with a plague of zombie-like âshakes,â and somehow they are all the scarier for being more of a backdrop than the core of the story. The desert setting is almost a character itself, and it practically shimmers with menace. Between the haunting sense of place and time and the galloping pace of the action, I gobbled down this book in one sitting.
From Amelinda's list on young adult supernatural horror.
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