Colleen says: Kevin Takahashi is a 16-year-old refugee from San Francisco living in New York City with his dad. San Francisco was destroyed by a kaiju, or monster (think Godzilla). A shark had eaten so much polluted fish that it changed into a monster called a Karkadon and came ashore in San Francisco Bay, […]
Month: January 2014
Dueling Reviews: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
January 27, 2014The MonsterLibrarian says: In The Monstrumologist, twelve year old Will Henry is thrust into danger when a grave robber brings a horrifying creature to his mentor, Dr. Warthrop, in the middle of the night. Dr. Warthrop is a monstrumologist, a monster-hunting doctor, and now Will and his mentor are in a race to find and stop these […]
The third and final volume in K. H. Koehler’s tale of steampunk, time travel and dragons is just as good as the previous two. As in the second volume, there is a reorienting chapter at the start, and then the tale continues. Sasha Strange, Lord Quinn, and now Dr. John Ulysses, struggle to survive long […]
K. H. Koehler has put together a great second stage to her tale of time travel, steampunk and dinosaurs. This volume picks up where Planet of Dinosaurs ended complete with a short summary to reorient the reader. In Sea of Serpents, Sasha Strange, Lord Quinn, and Toby, sort through their relationships to one another while overcoming adversity and […]
Time Travel Steampunk. This is a fun read from K. H. Koehler. The story begins in 1889, with the heroine, Sasha Strange, on the verge of being married off to the boorish brute Lord Sirius Quinn. To the chagrin of her father, Sasha is only interested in science and the freedom to explore away […]