The Carnival Wars

by Serena Valentino · 2005

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GloomCookie features an ensemble cast of cursed beauties, living wax statues, bad goth poets, malevolent gargoyles, disturbed werewolves, and a boy struggling to come to terms with his enormous power. The Carnival Macabre goes to war against Marguerite and her evil shape shifting acolytes for their horrific misdeeds against Sebastian and his friends.

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Themes
gothicgothicMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 220 pages
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