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YA book review: Rage (Horsemen of the Apocalypse series, #2) by Jackie Morse Kessler

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Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 228 pages Publisher: Graphia (April 4, 2011) Summary: Missy didn’t mean to cut so deep. But after the party where she was humiliated in front of practically everyone in school, who could blame her for wanting some comfort? Sure, most people don’t find comfort in the touch of a razor blade, but Missy always was . . . different. That’s why she was chosen to become one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War. Now Missy wields a new kind of blade—a big, brutal sword that can cut down anyone and anything in her path. But it’s with this weapon in her hand that Missy learns something that could help her triumph over her own pain: control. My review: What really struck me with Kessler's first book,    Hunger ( Horsemen of the Apocalypse series), was the ingenuity of her storyline. The author  gave the lore of the  Apocalypse a spooky, supernatural twist and singled out one rider (Famine) by pairing this role with  a teenage girl suffer