While only one story in this collection directly portrays Batgirl (both of them, actually and I love so much who Barbara Gordon is here) the women around Batman v 2 Terry McGinnis take center stage for once. Unlike Bruce Wayne, who mostly remained aloof (and above) from society Terry is an active part in it. […]
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Book Review: Ash Rising by Katya Lebeque
November 7, 2019Post apocalyptic fairy tale. Do I have your attention yet? Ash Rising is set in the world of Cinderella, after her happily ever after. After a horrific genetic mutation that was supposed to help feed the world and instead leeches the ground of its fertility and mutates the birds of the kingdom into giant predators […]
**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.** Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke, illustrated by Allen Williams. Katherine Tegen Books, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0062414465 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Who better to take Pan’s Labyrinth, Spanish filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed dark, surrealist […]
Book Review: Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
October 31, 2019**This review is from the Monster Librarian archives.** Authorhouse, 2007 Hyperion Books for Children,2006 ISBN: 0786851627 Available: New Marty and Grace O’Hara are bright and resourceful twins, opposite in temperament and interest. When their parents go missing after a terrible accident, the twins are plucked from their Swiss boarding school to live with their […]
Book Review: The Antidote by Shelley Sackier
October 28, 2019After a deadly disease swept through their little kingdom, Xavi and Fee end up being the only children left behind. After ten years of isolation due to quarantine, and ten years of taking the antidote, the kingdom is on the cusp of reopening, and welcoming back its long lost children, when Prince Xavi and healer’s […]
**This review is from the Monster Librarian archives.** ISBN:9781425980726 Available: New In an extra dimensional space a powerful young lady by the name of Pandora resides. Pandora, seek to remake a plane of existence called The Void to suit her wishes. In order to do so she captures people from our world who have […]
Book Review: Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
October 22, 2019**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk** Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin Wednesday Books, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1250239549 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Sixteen year old Elle and her friends Jenny, Summer, and Mads, are glamorous, vicious, daughters of the ultra-rich whose parents have given them a lot of freedom, When the […]
**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.** Slasher Girls & Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke Speak, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-014751408 Available: Slasher Girls & Monster Boys is an anthology of stories by YA authors, including Kendare Blake, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Ryan, Leigh Bardugo, and Marie Lu. Each story is based on a horror movie, television […]
Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer HMH Books for Young Readers, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1328863546 Available: Hardcover, paperback, and Kindle edition If you are planning to start this book, make sure you have plenty of time to finish it, because if you put it down, unless you have a very strong stomach, you may find it […]
Book Review: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey– Two Reviews!
October 10, 2019The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 9781416987987 Available: Hardcover, paperback, mass market paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook 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 […]