"It begins with fire"
Zee is a quiet, odd girl with a notebook full of band names and song lyrics, a fascination with the bizarre, and a bass guitar. Relly is a strange, thin kid with a band, a burning, and the peculiar, extraordinary truth. When Zee joins Scorpio Bone, things begin to come together. Relly's band plays Ghost Metal, so loud it almost crushes your skull, but inside the sheer noise is silence, singing. And with Zee, they are no longer ordinary, outcasts, less. They are more, they are magic: Teenage heavy metal gods in a battle for survival and success.
"It takes four and no more.
It takes four to win the war."
An orchestral phantasm of screaming midnight storms and the utter silence of gravestone poetry, Beautiful City of the Dead is an absolutely stunning book. Not a very long book, but the sheer poetry of it really packs a punch. Lovely, absolutely lovely. Unusual, original, and pure magic.
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