By Scott Westerfeld
Published By First Second
I definitely got what I wanted from this book. Spill zone stars Addison, a young woman who illegally photographs the strange goings on inside a now deserted town where a catastrophe called the spill changed the rules of physics and reality, and cause mutants and strange "flesh puppet" corpses to run rampant. After one of her more successful photography runs, she meets with one of her rich buyers, who informs her that there was another such spill in North Korea, and that inside the town hospital there is a special box that may contain the key to solving and eventually fixing the spill.
The Book is good, but it has its flaws. I like it's setting, but the characters are kinda tropeish. The child character is the unexplained physic child trope but with an added morally questionable doll. The two do play off each other, but it could have been better. The generic tough guy friend is just that, and the rich eccentric buyer just struck me as out of touch, seeming to always have a cheesy grin on her face. I loved the creature design, but wished it had gone further, with more beasts lurking in the background, giving the reader a bit more eye candy to look at. The color is great, with vivid contrast. While the plot does kinda get a bit silly, I think it's strong enough to hold up. One more thing is that the book is very much the first of a series, and leaves way too much up in the air. I do want to see these threads taken somewhere, but I think that some of them should have been saved for later entries.
TL;DR: 7/10
Should You Read It: Yeah, if you like weird and absurd
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