From ML’s Circulation Desk Two Lions, 2014 ISBN: 9781477847251 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition The Blood Guard is the first book in a trilogy by Carter Roy. In this snarky comic adventure, we meet Evelyn Ronan Truelove (who simply wishes to be called Ronan). Ronan is an oddball. A bit of a loner, his mother has […]
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Review: The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever by Jeff Strand
February 5, 2016Strand is known for his humorous horror books. My favorites are A Bad Day for Voodoo and Wolf Hunt (the last is very much not YA). His loyal readers might come into this one expecting a teenage zombie movie getting taken over by real zombies. And they will be disappointed (but he says so at […]
Book Review: The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
February 3, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-0399256622 Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle edition, Audio Secret societies, mass murder, a journey into the land between life and death, and a cataclysmic event that threatens to destroy all of London—The Shadow Cabinet is full of action, intrigue, and answers that are exactly what fans of […]
Book Review: Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
January 28, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk Disney-Hyperion, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1484720974 Available: Hardcover, Audible, Audio CD, Kindle edition The premise of Isle of the Lost is that all the Disney villains, along with their children, have been imprisoned on an island without any magic or access to technology, by King Beast (of Beauty and the Beast). King Beast […]
Book Review: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
January 26, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0312573805 Available: Paperback, Audible, Audio CD, Kindle edition Anyone feeling nostalgic for the glory days of high school will drop that nostalgia right in the trash bin within pages of beginning Some Girls Are. Our protagonist, Regina, is the best friend of the high school Mean […]
Book Review: Little Boy Blu by Cara Brookins
January 21, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk The Wild Rose Press, Inc., 2014 ISBN: 978-1628306903 Available: Paperback, Kindle Novels set in Appalachia will always hold a certain mystique: there’s a certain air about the location found only in a few places in America. In Little Boy Blu, readers will find themselves immersed in a dense atmosphere comprised of […]
Book Review: She-Hulk, Volume 1: Single Green Female
January 19, 2016Apparently She Hulk is way to much of a rock star for anyone to handle. Her success, invulnerability and Tony Stark-like fame has made her a very difficult to tolerate Avenger. So difficult that she is fired from her day job, kicked out of the Avengers manor and firmly encouraged to re-evaluate her play girl, […]
Book Review: Dog with a Bone by Hailey Edwards
January 14, 2016Thierry is the daughter of the Black Dog, a fearsome, often vicious enforcer of the fae, and a human mother. She’s just graduated marshal school and is now on her first real case with her trainer turned partner and romantic interest, Shaw (the only person known to be immune to her power). Someone is poaching […]
From ML’s Circulation Desk Weinstein Books, 2015 ISBN-10: 1602862729 ISBN-13: 978-1602862722 Sunshine and her mother have left the comfort and warmth of Texas for the damp and chilly world of Washington State, a beautiful if isolated place. She and her mom have a tight relationship, with little of the typical YA angst. Their relationship is tested and […]
Review: Angel: Old Friends
January 1, 2016It’s not terribly clear whether Old Friends is an alternate to After the Fall or not. In the latter we see L.A. materialized in hell and some major changes to our cast. In Old Friends it’s clear the Wolfram & Hart take over, as well as much of season 5 of Angel happened. But likely […]