BOOK REVIEW: THE FOREST DEMANDS ITS DUE BY KOSOKO JACKSON

**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk**   The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson Quill Tree Books, 2023 ISBN-13: ‎978-0063260795 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Buy:  Bookshop.org  |  Amazon.com   I have enjoyed Kosoko Jackson’s previous YA books, the dystopian Survive the Dome and the time travel novel Yesterday is History, both with Black queer boys as protagonists. The […]

BOOK REVIEW: THE MONSTERS WE DEFY BY LESLYE PENELOPE

**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope. Redhook, 2022 ISBN-13 ‎978-0316377911 Available:  Paperback, Kindle edition, Audible Buy:   Bookshop.org |  Amazon.com   The Monsters We Defy takes place in an alternate Washington, D.C. during the Harlem Renaissance. This world has Enigmas (similar to demons) who will offer you a gift (Charm) always in company with […]

BOOK REVIEW: THE MIDNIGHT GIRLS BY ALICIA JASINSKA

**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska Sourcebooks Fire, 2022 ISBN-13: 978-1728209753 Available: Hardcover, paperback, audiobook, Kindle edition. Buy:   Bookshop.org   |  Amazon.com     The Midnight Girls takes place in a fantasy kingdom based on the Kingdom of Poland at the end of the 18th century, which was torn apart by wars with […]

BOOK REVIEW: IN THE LAIR OF LEGENDS BY DAVID BUZAN

**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** In The Lair of Legends by David Buzan Black Rose Writing, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-68513-250-7 (Paperback), 978-1-68513-331-3 (Hardcover) Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Buy:  Bookshop.org | Amazon.com   In The Lair of Legends by David Buzan is a well-written, exciting tale that combines action, myth and history. Jolon Winterhawk is a Nez Perce warrior who […]

Book Musings: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice is not a book for teens. It really isn’t. And yet, as I’m watching book banning cases pop up, like this one in Virginia, I’m seeing in the comments, over and over “But I read Anne Rice when I was 13.” And…well I did. I first read Anne Rice […]

Book Review: Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.**   Wednesday Books, 2021 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250787101 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com )     Within These Wicked Walls takes its inspiration from the classic gothic romance Jane Eyre. Set in England, Jane is an orphan who arrives to work as a governess in Thornfield Hall, home to the wealthy Edward […]

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 […]

Book Review: Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quirk Books, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781683692157 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Audible audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Whisper Down the Lane, a true-crime based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the 1980s, is the second book by Clay McLeod Chapman I have read and it just makes it […]

Graphic Novel Review: Road of Bones by Rich Douek, art by Alex Cormack

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IDW, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684055982 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology  ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It’s 1953. Roman Ivanovich Morozov is a prisoner in the Siberian gulag of Kolyma for slandering Stalin, given 25 years of hard labor as punishment. He and his fellow prisoners are forced to work in harsh conditions. If the frozen […]

Vault Review: Darkwater by Catherine Fisher

**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.** Dial, 2012 ISBN: 9780803738188 Available: hardcover & multi format e-book Part “Beauty and the […]