Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite is an anchor book for two reasons. First, in a world of Anne Rice vampires, super powered, inhuman creatures living adventures far outside the world as we see it, Brite’s vampires are a species outside of humanity. Brite embraces the spirit of the vampire, but not the trappings of […]
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Essential Vampires: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
January 29, 2021Interview with the Vampire is one of the most influential vampire novels ever published. First published in 1976 it has been in print consistently since then and was instrumental in launching the idea of vampires as sympathetic antiheroes. The first book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series it has been adapted into a movie and […]
Book Review: Mayhem by Estelle Laure
January 6, 2021*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Mayhem by Estelle Laure ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Wednesday Books, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781250297938 Available: Hardcover, ebook, audiobook Mayhem Brayburn’s mother fled her home in Santa Maria, California, after her husband Lucas died, cutting all ties and marrying again to another man in a small town in Texas. The tradeoff she’s made is […]
TV Review: Vampire Diaries season 1
October 3, 2020Like a lot of people stuck at home, I’ve started binging all those shows I’ve been wanting to watch. I put this one off because I’m not an unbiased viewer. As a teen I was a huge LJ Smith fan. Fan activities and informal clubs led to some major life events, some friendships I still […]
Book Review: Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff
October 1, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Entangled Teen, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1640638952 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Grace’s parents died in a car accident, leaving her no choice but to leave her home in California and unenthusiastically move to Alaska, where her uncle, now her guardian, is headmaster at […]
Graphic Novel Review: Spike: Old Times
February 24, 2020This one shot graphic novel is darn near perfect. It centers on Spike trying to save another moody poet from a curse and I mean completely centers on Spike. No place here for Buffer-verse headlines Angel or Buffy Summers. Instead Spike discovers more about his own past, how a demon curse led to him becoming […]
**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.** First Second Books, 2008 ISBN: 1596431075 Available: New Life Sucks is an unusual, funny, and […]
Epic ReWatch: Buffy the Vampire Slayer S1 E1 & 2
August 16, 2018Michele was part of the original 1997 intended audience and feverishly awaited new episodes weekly. Brosia is a teen now, watching for the first time 21 years after Buffy changed our pop culture. Michele feels old. Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2 Welcome to the Hellmouth/The Harvest Michele Says: First, a little background. Buffy premiered […]
Mr. Higgins Comes Home by Mike Mignola, art by Warwick Johnson-Caldwell Dark Horse, 2017 ISBN: 9781506704661 Available: print, ebook Mr. Higgins Comes Home is an original graphic novel by Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Caldwell. The household at Castle Golga are planning for the annual festival of Walpurigsnacht, as a pair of vampire killers question a man […]
Buffy: The High School Years: Parental Parasite by Kel McDonald, art by Yishan Li Dark Horse Comics, 2017 ISBN: 9781506703046 Available: print, Kindle, and comiXology ebook Into every generation, a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. So begins the story of Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, and Xander chasing down a […]