Scott Westerfeld

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison’s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn’t spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death—or worse. When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther than she has ever dared. Within the Spill Zone, Hell awaits—and it seems to be calling Addison's name.

Spill Zone

Lynette Pedersen

SO GOOD! Already put the second one on hold at the library!

Maggie Gordon

Spill Zone is a strong introduction to a new SF world by Westerfield. There was an... accident that changed Addison's city drastically. Everyone was evacuated and strange things live in the spill zone now. Addison keeps sneaking into the city to take pictures so that she can earn money to take care of her little sister. Until one day she gets an incredible offer that she can't refuse...

Westerfeld's latest takes readers to a haunting city filled with... things certainly worse than ghosts. No one seems to know what's going on, but the way things have changed is certainly outside the realm of normal. It feels different enough from other mysterious disaster stories that I felt quite sucked in, and there were enough mysteries set up to keep the series going for a while. Time will tell if Westerfeld can keep this story as unnerving, but enthralling as the first volume, but this is definitely a good start!

Ethan Hill

Pleasantly surprised by the macabre elements and the art style fit the story really well!

Nadine 

The kids that like creepy scary books are going to love this one. Great art work and the colorist is excellent. My main complaint is the same as that for the secret coder GNs - it ends on a cliffhanger but before we've had any kind of a completion of a self contained story. This is very annoying - especially for kids and particularly because the time lag between books in the GN world is so long. 

Review based on a review copy given by Net Galley.

Toni Turner

The art is so gorgeous and the story is really really cool and interesting and totally dark. I definitely didn’t get enough though and I need to know what happens next!!!

Kate Gravelle

Emily C Peterson

Bumping down to a 4 on reread. I still really enjoyed it, but not really qualifying for a 5 stars.

Hayley 📖🌈💜🌸

Well that was kind of awesome. And now I need part 2 immediately.

The first volume of an original graphic novel series for young adults, from New York Times—bestselling author Scott Westerfeld Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison’s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn’t spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death—or worse. When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther than she has ever dared. Within the Spill Zone, Hell awaits—and it seems to be calling Addison's name. Find out what happens in Spill Zone. And don't miss the sequel, Spill Zone: The Broken Vow. This is a stunning graphic novel written by the author of the Uglies series, the Leviathan and Midnighters trilogies, as well as So Yesterday, Peeps, and The Last Days. This book is printed in stunning full color, with art by Alex Puvilland and colors by Hilary Sycamore. The trade paperback edition includes a 21-page bonus comic. This title has Common Core connections. Praise for Spill Zone: “Addison is particularly complex: though she is sympathetic, her decisions are intentionally presented as morally questionable. Harsh profanity and violence make this a more appropriate choice for mature readers. This unnerving, gripping title—Westerfeld’s first original graphic novel—is bound to entice older comics fans, especially those interested in darker sci-fi and nuanced characterization. . . . A must-have for teen and graphic novel collections.” —Kirkus Reviews “Fascinating and hard to forget.” —Publishers Weekly “A little dark, a little twisted, and completely enthralling.” —Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles and Heartless "Amazing." —io9 "Expect some stunning sci-fi spectacle when Addison ventures into the Spill Zone." —A.V. Club "Readers will have no problem rooting for Addison—and fearing for her. . . . As frightening as Spill Zone can be, though, its greatest asset is its muscle tensing suspense. Reading it feels like binge-watching a great cable series, complete with the same feeling of despair you get when you finish the final episode and realize you've got . . . to wait for the next season." —The New York Times "Puvilland, an animator for DreamWorks, has a rough, kinetic style that brings to life the rough, kinetic world of Spill Zone. . . . Westerfeld does not overburden the story with unnecessary dialogue or narration. He deftly joins the ranks of other established YA authors like M. T. Anderson and Marissa Meyer who, as of late, have taken a break from prose to produce comics." —The New York Review of Books "If Katniss Everdeen’s your gal, you’re going to want to meet Addison Merrit, another teen trying to make the best of her dystopic surroundings." —Entertainment Weekly "Spill Zone is an absolute must read. It’s a brilliant work of art that is easily one of this year’s best comics. Engaging, exciting, and mysterious, this comic will consume you." —Nerdist "YA superstar Scott 'Uglies' Westerfeld and artist Alex Puvilland tell the spooky, action-packed tale of Addison, one of the few survivors of the mysterious events that destroyed Poughkeepsie, New York, turning it into a spooky, Night-Vale-ish place where mutant animals, floating living corpses, and people trapped in two-dimensional planes live amid strange permanent winds that create funnels of old electronics and medical waste." —Boing Boing