Elysium Girls (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781368041867)

A lush, dazzlingly original young adult fantasy about an epic clash of witches, gods, and demons.

Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl. Until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years' time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain.

Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium's gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and they trigger a terrible accident that gets both Sal and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel. There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile: a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor--only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game in this exciting fantasy debut.

Author: Kate Pentecost
ISBN-10: 1368041868
ISBN-13: 9781368041867
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2020
School Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 117

About the Author
Kate Pentecost was born and raised on the Texas/Louisiana state line, where there are more churches, pine trees, and alligators than anything else. She is a stalwart advocate of the weird, and has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Elysium Girls is her debut.