Book Review: The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk. ** Quill Tree Press, 2022 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062941428 Available:  Preorder (available March 8) hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com )   So many readers wish they could enter the worlds of their favorite books. The Book of Living Secrets will make them think twice.   Adelle and Connie have been best friends for […]

Graphic Novel Review: High Moon v1 Bullet Holes and Bite Marks by David Gallaher

**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Zuda Comics, 2009 ISBN: 9781401224622 Available: New      High Moon presents an intriguing mix of horror and western. High Noon started out as a webcomic at the Zuda Comics site and won a competition where the viewers of the site voted for their favorite comic.  The premise is fairly straightforward. Cole, a criminal who […]

Graphic Novel Review: Hollow-Eyed Mary by Andre Duza

**Cross posted from the ML vault.** Devil’s Due, 2009 ISBN: 9781934692585 Available: New   One hundred percent rage and violence, Hollow-Eyed Mary is a brutal, vivid tale of a woman wronged and killed, and back for revenge. Raised by a twisted doomsday cult, Mary is after more than revenge. She wants to use the end of the […]

Book Review: Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes with a foreword by Jane Yolen

**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  […]

Graphic Novel Review: The Unwanted by Diablo, Mark Michaels, Juan Romera, and Jason Arthur

**Cross posted from the ML Vault.** Diablo Publications, 2008 ISBN: N/A Availability: New, Used and digital             In The Unwanted, a demon is inadvertently released in a juvenile detention center when a staffer brings home an amulet from Tibet.  As the demon proceeds to hunt down the kids, a teacher in the juvenile detention center and […]

Graphic Novel Review: Weirdling by Mike Dubisch

**Cross posted from the ML Vault** Strange Fear, 2007 ISBN:  978097898113 Available: New     Anna Mandretta is a crew member on a space ship in the middle of fighting a war against the alien Xax.   She starts dreaming that she is a famous surgeon at Miskatonic Hospital centuries earlier dealing with a child who is […]

Book Review: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Berkley, 2021 ISBN-13: 9780593201237 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, Audible audiobook  ( Bookshop.org |  Amazon.com ) The Final Girl is the lone survivor of horror movies. She fought valiantly, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends who were each gruesomely dispatched by the killer. But after the truck drives away, the sirens fade, and the […]

Graphic Novel Review: Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith

**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Dark Horse Books, 2004 ISBN: 1569719357 Available: New and Used     Criminal Macabre introduces us to Cal McDonald, a hard-drinking, drug-using detective with a ghoul sidekick by the name of Mo’lock.  McDonald has to uncover who is behind a plot to turn the usual Vampires and Werewolves of Los Angles into super […]