Cool Shades

Smith, Andrew. The Marbury Lens.
New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2010. Print.

This very dark story starts out on a very dark day when sixteen-year-old Jack is kidnapped and horrifically tortured after a drunken going away party.

He narrowly makes his escape with his best friend Conn, who exacts gruesome revenge on their captor.

The two travel to London, where a strange hands Jack a strange pair of goggles that allows him to see the world not as it is on the surface, but as a terrifying cannibalistic wasteland, where Conn is Jack's greatest enemy.

Dark tales, indeed.

Abstract (thanks to OCLC World Cat): "After being kidnapped and barely escaping, sixteen-year-old Jack goes to London with his best friend Connor, where someone gives him a pair of glasses that send him to an alternate universe where war is raging, he is responsible for the survival of two younger boys, and Connor is trying to kill them all."

Winner:  YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2011, Publisher's Weekly's Best Children's Book of the Year Fiction 2011

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