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Review: Alabaster by Caitlin Kiernan

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So I was talking the other day about discovering new authors and new ideas in literature. Here's something very YA friendly, and honestly, if it were released by a major YA publisher, I can see this book doing very very well in the YA demographic. As is, Alabaster by Caitlin R Kiernan has a comic-book adaptation that is equally wonderful, but let me just take a moment to review the book. Warning though: it was difficult to get my hands on this one. TITLE: Alabaster AUTHOR: Caitlin R Kiernan COMIC-BOOK Artist: Steve Lieber, cover designed by Greg Ruth RATING: 5 stars GoodReads Summary: An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel - or perhaps only voices in her head - searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. REVIEW (Please note that this is the review for the book , not the comic) Dancy Flammarion is an albino girl with a big blad