**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IDW, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684055982 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It’s 1953. Roman Ivanovich Morozov is a prisoner in the Siberian gulag of Kolyma for slandering Stalin, given 25 years of hard labor as punishment. He and his fellow prisoners are forced to work in harsh conditions. If the frozen […]
Category: historical fiction
Vault Review: Darkwater by Catherine Fisher
March 31, 2021**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.** Dial, 2012 ISBN: 9780803738188 Available: hardcover & multi format e-book Part “Beauty and the […]
Vault Review: Ship of Souls by Zetta Elliot
March 22, 2021**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.** Amazon Encore, 2012 ISBN: 9781612182681 Available: trade paperback and kindle Ship of Souls is a […]
Vault Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
January 25, 2021**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.** Hyperion Voice, 2009 ISBN: 9781401340902 Available: New and Used This book is not horror, […]
Graphic Novel Review: Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
September 28, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781974703760 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, comiXology Junji Ito, the master of horror manga, adapts Mary Shelley’s classic, Frankenstein in this graphic collection. Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with creating life from death. He stops at nothing to create his giant, only to […]
Book Review: Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland
September 24, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland Balzer + Bray, 2020 ISBN-13: 9780062570635 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Deathless Divide is the sequel to Dread Nation (reviewed here). The story is told through both Jane and Katherine’s points of view. After the fall of the Survivalists’ community of […]
Book Review: The Deep by Rivers Solomon
January 31, 2020*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, […]
*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 […]
Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivelä BOOM! Studios, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1684152452 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Hugo Award-nominated novelist Saladin Ahmed gives us the story of journalist Elena Abbott, who is investigating police brutality and corruption in 1972 Detroit. There are crimes being committed by the very people sworn to protect and serve. Elena doesn’t […]
Jenny Finn by Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey, art by Troy Nixey and Farel Dalrymple Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 9781427606754 Available: hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology edition A mysterious girl, Jenny Finn, arrives in Victorian England and leaves death, destruction, and a strange curse in her wake. There is a plague causing gruesome lesions in the crooked […]