A distant follow up to Netflix’s Castlevania series, Nocturne is set during the French Revolution and focuses on Trevor and Sypha’s descendant Richtor Belmont, his adopted sister and magician Maria Renard, Annette, a former slave with Orisha powers, and Edouard, Annette’s best friend and a opera singer. I started watching right after finishing the first […]
Category: angels/demons
Anime Review: Castlevania
March 29, 2024Castlevania isn’t a true anime, as it’s produced by Netflix, and written by Warren Ellis (who is amazing), done in an anime-inspired style of artwork, however it presents itself as one (thanks to multiple anime alumni also being involved) so I’m reviewing it as one. Something it’s also not is aimed at teens, with sexual […]
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: Litani by Jess Lourey
February 17, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Litani by Jess Lourey Thomas & Mercer, 2021 ISBN: 9781542027014 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, compact disc, MP3 ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Set in the mid-1980s, Litani is a mystery/thriller dealing with the unpleasant subject of child molesters, but the book is couched into language that will work for younger readers. While written for adults, […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Tor.com, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1250781505 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes brings the present day into a literary and folkloric past that brings fairytales, history, and Jewish tradition together to form something new and unique. I don’t think I have ever […]
Book Review: Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
January 13, 2022**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 […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Supernatural: Bobby Singer’s Guide to Hunting by David Reed ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It Books; Original edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-0062103376 Available: Paperback and digital Editor’s note: This review was previously published in 2012 on a now-defunct version of our site. I read a lot of serious, professional, technical books and articles for work, so […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Illuminati Transport Volume 1 by the Fillbach Brothers First Comics, Inc., 2017 ISBN-13: 9781618550385 Available: Paperback Jim Kowalski makes his living as a transporter for Illuminati Trucking, picking up supernatural threats captured by the Department of Paranormal Experts, or DPE. With his dog, Geech, and Crystal Skull of Doom, […]
Book Review: The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas
July 5, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Life would have to be pretty awful and lonely for a person to agree to be possessed by a demon, but Clare has had a pretty traumatic life, and her demon not only takes her away but protects her from danger. Several years after she discovered her addict father […]
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 […]