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Savage Drift

by Emmy LAYBOURNE
320p. (Monument 14: Bk. 3). Feiwel & Friends. May. 2014. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781250036421; ebk. $9.99. ISBN 9781250062079.
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Gr 9 Up—Niko and the other survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to a Canadian refugee camp where Niko hopes to be reunited with presumed-dead Josie. However, he and the group must survive a final set of obstacles in this fierce conclusion.
The kids from the first two Monument 14 books have mostly reunited in Canada, but Josie is still imprisoned in a facility housing the potentially violent Type Os. Niko sets off with Jake, Dean, and his pregnant-by-Jake girlfriend Astrid to rescue Josie. Chapters alternate between Josie's and Dean's perspectives, and Laybourne sustains the tension and the thrilling pace throughout.
The title sounds like a 1970s bodice-ripper, but the "savage drift" here is a toxic cloud of the chemicals introduced in the previous two books (Monument 14,
Reviewed by Staff , May 01, 2014

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