Angel Falls by Julia Rust and David Surface YAP Books, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1949140330 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition. ( Bookshop.org |Amazon.com ) In the 1600s, a large group of women and children colonists of Beauport, Massachusetts disappeared, killed by the Indians they displaced. A year later, they started to return. Those who believed […]
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Tales from Harrow County, Volume 1: Death’s Choir by Cullen Bunn, art by Naomi Franquiz Dark Horse, 2020 ISBN-13: 97815067168 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Award-winning, Eisner-nominated Southern Gothic horror returns in Tales from Harrow County, Volume 1: Death’s Choir. The story focuses on Bernice Anderson as she has taken on the mantle of steward of […]
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible Volume 1 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Scott Allie, art by Sebastián Fiumara and Max Fiumara Dark Horse Comics, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781506733784 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Comixology. ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Abe, a humanoid amphibious man and member of the B.P.R.D, after awakening from a coma and mutated, leaves the B.P.R.D. to […]
Lucky Devil Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn, art by Fran Galán, lettering by El Torres Dark Horse Comics, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781506721996 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, Comixology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Stanley has terrible luck. His three-year relationship is tainted by an affair his girlfriend is having. He’s a gofer for a corporate organization where his higher-ups constantly demean him. […]
Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Jeff Edwards Levine Querido, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781646141791 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers makes her YA debut with Man Made Monsters with this 18-story anthology that traces one Cherokee family across time. She starts in the 1830s with the tribe forced off […]
BOOK REVIEW: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US BY ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE
February 2, 2023**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. Peachtree Teen, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1682633243 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Hell Followed with Us is an incredible and original book, but it is not an easy read. It is a scream of rage. Make sure to read the author’s […]
BOOK REVIEW: HOUSE OF HOLLOW BY KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND
January 26, 2023**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk** House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0593110348 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) House of Hollow was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Young Adult Fiction this year. Ten years ago, Grey, […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Last Huntress (Mirror Realm Series Book 1) by Lenore Borja Spark Press, Nov. 2022 ISBN-13: 978-1684631735 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Bookshop.org | Amazon.com The Last Huntress is a young adult fantasy/adventure with romantic underpinnings, clearly targeted towards junior high and high school girls. That doesn’t mean adults can’t read and […]
Book Musings: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
September 13, 2022The 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: BLOOD SCION BY DEBORAH FALAYE
September 6, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) HarperTeen, 2022 ISBN-13: :978-0062954046 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Blood Scion is horrific but I don’t know if I would call it horror– it is African fantasy. Sloane Shade is a Scion– a blood descendant of an Orisha, a child […]