Book Review: The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring

*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring Imprint, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1250304506 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD   Teenage Mavi, living in Argentina under the military dictatiorship of Jorge Videla in 1978, is barely scraping by in the streets of Buenos Aires after her parents have “disappeared”.  Desperate to […]

Book Review: The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas

*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 […]

Book Review: The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas

*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 […]

Book Review: The Deep by Rivers Solomon

*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Saga Press, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1534439863 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD   Yetu is the historian for the wajniru, underwater beings created when slave traders threw pregnant African women overboard into the Atlantic Ocean. Although the women drowned, their children, born in the deep of the ocean, […]

Graphic Novel Review: The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi

*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Life Drawn, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781643375717 Available:  Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology Koren Shadmi’s The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television is a graphic biography following Rod Serling’s time in the military as a paratrooper, his diagnosis of “shell shock” and the subsequent nightmares, his rise to fame during the […]

Vault Review: Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics edited by Tom Pomplun

**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.**   Eureka Productions, 2007 ISBN:0978791908 Available: New     Gothic Classics is a collection of gothic […]

Vault Review: Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft edited by Tom Pomplun

**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.** Eureka Productions, 2007 ISBN: 0974664898 Available: New     Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft is an excellent introduction […]

Graphic Novel Review: Harrow County Volume 2 by Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Tyler Crook, Carla Speed McNeil, Hannah Christensen, and Jenn Manley Lee

**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.** Harrow County, Library Edition, Volume 2: Snake Doctor & Family Tree by Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Tyler Crook, Carla Speed McNeil, Hannah Christensen, and Jenn Manley Lee Dark Horse, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1506710655 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, comiXology There is so much happening in this second library edition of Harrow County. […]

Graphic Novel Review: H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Volume 1 adaptation and artwork by Gou Tanabe, translation by Zack Davisson

**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.** H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, The First Volume adaption and artwork by Gou Tanabe, translated by Zack Davisson Dark Horse, 2019 ISBN13: 978-1506710228 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology In this Cthulhu mythos tale, an expedition team from Miskatonic University headed by Professor William Dyer travels to Antarctica […]

Book Review: Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters #2) by Rebecca Schaeffer

**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.**   Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer HMH Books for Young Readers, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1328863553 Available: Hardcover,  Kindle edition, audio CD   Only Ashes Remain is the follow-up to Not Even Bones (previously reviewed here). At the beginning of this book, Nita and Kovit have escaped from the Death Market, leaving chaos […]