Through the Woods by Emily Carroll Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014 ISBN: 978-1442465954 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Carroll’s Through the Woods includes five short sequential art stories, each one atmospheric and eerie. In “Our Neighbor’s House,” sisters Mary, Beth, and Hannah are left on their own after their father goes out to hunt, with instructions to […]
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Escape from the Isle of the Lost (Descendants, #4) by Melissa de la Cruz Disney Hyperion, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1368020053 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Escape from the Isle of the Lost is the last book in Melissa de la Cruz’s media tie-in series to Disney’s Descendants franchise. For those not familiar with Descendants, be warned that this review is packed […]
Happy Death Day & Happy Death Day 2U by Aaron Hartzler Blumhouse Books/Anchor Books, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-9848-9772-5 Available: paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Remember the good old days when movie tie-ins were available for almost every film out there, and good authors wrote them? Lest we forget, Alan Dean Foster, Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, and Orson […]
Peter Green and the Unliving Academy: This Book is Full of Dead People (The Unliving Chronicles #1) by Angelina Allsop TCK Publishing, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1631610646 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Fourteen year old Peter Green wakes up on the floor of a hotel lobby wearing only pajamas and a silk tie, and discovers he is dead, has no memories […]
Graphic Novel Review: Belzebubs by J.P. Ahonen
September 24, 2019Belzebubs by J.P. Ahonen Top Shelf Productions, 2019 ISBN: 9781603094429 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, comiXology edition, special editions with full album and band merch The life of a metal band can be challenging, especially trying to balance time with family and religious obligations to fulfill. Called a “trve kvlt mockumentary”, Belzebubs, which started out as a webcomic, gives us a […]
Book Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee
September 19, 2019In a post-apocalyptic world where the United States has fallen apart due to a deadly virus that leaves survivors with magical abilities (is that not enough to get you to grab this book?) sixteen year old Noam finds himself the only survivor o an outbreak in a refugee neighborhood and suddenly swooped into a world […]
Book Review: Wuftoom by Mary G. Thompson
September 17, 2019Clarion, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0547637242 Available: New hardcover, paperback, and Kindle edition Deformed by disease, Evan’s only visitor and caretaker is his mother, until he is visited by a wormlike creature of the dark who informs Evan that he is transforming into a Wuftoom . Desperate to hang on to his humanity, Evan resists. Then he […]
Book Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis
September 12, 2019Razorbill, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1595144676 Available: New Amy chose to go into cryogenic storage with her parents on the spaceship Godspeed, believing she’d wake up a hundred years later to help establish a new world. Instead, she wakes up early, to discover that society has drastically altered, with a dictatorial leader, Eldest, in charge of an unquestioning, […]
Book Review: The Man on Mystery Hill by Tracy L. Carbone
September 10, 2019Quake, 2010 ISBN: 9781590806708 Availability: New Abby McNabb’s father is “eccentric,” at least according to the rest of the town. He believes in ghosts and aliens, and he’s passed that on to Abby. When a mysterious spirit hints to Abby that her father might not be from this planet, it’s up to her to […]
Ripley Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 9781893951525 Availability: New and Used The Ripley’s Bureau of Investigation (RBI) is a collection of teenagers that go on undercover missions to uncover the truth about reports of the unbelievable. In A Scaly Tale, there are rumors of a man-like lizard living in the Everglades, and it’s up to them to determine whether […]