Hunger's Bite
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Publisher Description
A specter is haunting the Atlantic!
After growing up together on the luxurious SS Lark, Neeta Pandey and Emery Botwright are ready to start their lives. Emery wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and sail the Lark forever, while Neeta yearns to travel the world. But neither will have any future at all if the Lark’s new owner, Mr. Honeycutt, has his way.
Mr. Honeycutt . . . The first-class passengers adore him, while he makes the ship a nightmare for the crew. Twisted by unnatural appetites, the rich are actually transforming into something less than human, and their insatiable demands soon push the staff toward a—quite literal— burnout.
Something otherworldly is undeniably aboard the SS Lark, something horribly hungry. But it’s not Wick Farley: vampire, secret agent, and paranormal investigator. Alone and at sea, with only Neeta and Emery to help him, he must uncover the truth about Mr. Honeycutt. And fast—before a ravenous craving for power consumes them all.
Taylor Robin’s debut graphic novel is a thrilling supernatural adventure told in crackling, vibrant colors.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Emery Botwright and bespectacled Neeta Pandey have lived most of their lives sailing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the ocean liner SS Lark. Cracks in the teens' tight friendship begin appearing as they near adulthood: Emery wants to follow his father's captainship and remain aboard the Lark, while Neeta yearns to use the education she's received as a ward of the Botwrights to make something of herself, and "it's not going to be on this ship." Everything changes when the Lark is bought by American Mr. Honeycutt. Neeta's brother Aamir, who works as part of the waitstaff, says "greedy old miser" Honeycutt has "been changing the way of everything just to pinch a few pennies." But it soon becomes clear to Emery and Neeta that there's something more sinister at play. As the truth behind Honeycutt's schemes are revealed, Robin's expressive art morphs to match the slowly shifting mood. What starts as a charmingly funny interpretation of diverging adolescence evolves into a feverish nightmare that uses abstract paneling and character designs to examine capitalism and greed, resulting in a jumps-off-the-page thrill ride. The Pandeys are of Indian heritage; other main characters cue as white. Ages 13–17.