The Isle of Blood

Summary

Rip a human being apart, shred him into pieces no larger than the length of your thumb, and see how much of him you can recognize. … That blob of purplish substance there—a piece of his heart or perhaps a chunk of his liver? … Imagine an enormous robin’s nest fashioned not from twigs and leaves, but from human remains.On a quest to find the monster known as the “Holy Grail of Monstrumology” with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, Dr. Warthrop leaves Will Henry in New York. There the boy finds himself living with a real family; not facing midnight vivisections, narrow escapes, or confrontations with monstrosities, human and inhuman. After months go by with no word from Warthrop, Arkwright returns with the devastating news that the doctor is dead.Will doesn’t trust Arkwright, and he can’t believe—won’t accept—this information. Determined to find Warthrop, he journeys to London in hopes of finding the doctor still alive, knowing that if he succeeds, he will face something worse than all the monstrosities he has seen in his young life. They will go to Socotra, the Isle of Blood, where human beings are used to make nests, where those who are consumed are the lucky ones, where blood rains from the sky.In the deadliest adventure yet in the series that that began with the Printz Honor–winning The Monstrumologist, which VOYA called “gothic horror at its finest and most disturbing,” Will Henry must decide whether his loyalty to Dr. Warthrop is enough for him to make the ultimate sacrifice.