Book Review: Extasia by Claire Legrand

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Extasia by Claire Legrand Katherine Tegen Books, 2022 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062696632 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org |  Amazon.com )   Extasia is a fiercely feminist dark novel of a post-apocalyptic community drenched in patriarchy and cult-like violent misogyny straight from The Crucible and Year of the Witching. The dogma is that women were responsible for […]

TV Review: Doctor Who Season One (2005)

There’s no question that Doctor Who is a long time essential speculative fiction world. The 2005 reboot propelled the title into the lives of a new generation of people, building a wonderful world of a unique mesh of science fiction, fantasy, and, yes, horror. My first exposure to the Doctor came from horror, namely the […]

Vault Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott

**Vault Reviews were posted previously on the main MonsterLibrarian website and are transferred here in an effort to preserve our history. Efforts have been made to ensure the books are still available, but formats, covers, and other details may have changed.**  Grand Central Publishing, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1455503063 Available: New and kindle Less than a generation […]

Book Review: Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds by Peter Adam Salomon

*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds by Peter Adam Salomon PseudoPalms Press, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1093780673 Available: Paperback,  Kindle edition, audiobook     Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds has a fascinating concept, and turns out to be more relevant to our times than I’m sure the author expected. Taking place in the near future, I’d […]

Book Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee

In a post-apocalyptic world where the United States has fallen apart due to a deadly virus that leaves survivors with magical abilities (is that not enough to get you to grab this book?) sixteen year old Noam finds himself the only survivor o an outbreak in a refugee neighborhood and suddenly swooped into a world […]

Book Review: Injection, Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, art by Declan Shalvey

Injection, Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, art by Declan Shalvey Image Comics, 2015 ISBN: 9781632154798 Available:  Paperback, Kindle edition, and comiXology ebook Injection centers around five eccentric geniuses dealing with the paranormal, and the consequences they must face after inflicting The Injection on the planet. Years earlier, Maria Kilbride founded the Cross Culture-Contamination Unit (CCCU), funded through […]

Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

The Others are coming.  In five waves, they have been laying waste to everything we are and think of us as nothing more than annoying insects, or a disease that needs to be eradicated.  The first wave crippled the world.  The second obliterated much of it in a heartbeat. The third took much longer but […]

Review: Ashfall by Mike Mullin

I first learned of Ashfall in November of 2011, and I should have reviewed it long before now. It was chosen by more than one professional journal as one of the best young adult novels written in 2011, and I definitely agree with that, and now it has just been nominated as one of the Best Teen […]