New American Library, 1983 ISBN: 0451822196 Available: New and Used Cycle of the Werewolf is a good old fashioned basic werewolf book. The book chronicles a series of werewolf attacks in the small Maine town of Tarker’s Mills on a month by month basis. Marty Coslaw, a 10 year old boy, who is confined to a […]
Category: book reviews
Essential Werewolf Book Review: Lost Prince by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
October 17, 2021**This is a review from the ML Vault, included here as a book essential to the Werewolf/Shapeshifter subgenre** Borderlands Press, 2008ISBN: 9871880325988Available: New Lost Prince is a heavy read from the beginning. That’s not to say it’s not enjoyable, the detail and scope of the story is overwhelming at times, before considering that the setting is […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Vesuvian Press, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1645480082 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) The Bone Carveris the sequel to The Night Weaver, a previous Stoker nominee in the YA category. These two factors mean it has a high bar to jump, as the second book in a series usually isn’t able to […]
Essential Werewolf Book Review: Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
October 10, 2021**This review comes from the ML Vault, but is part of our series on books essential to the Werewolf/Shapeshifter subgenre** Harper, 2008 ISBN: 978-0061430220 Available: New Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow is the best urban dark fiction since S.P. Somtow. Sharp Teeth is a widely heralded innovative novel, a modern werewolf (werecanine in any case) story written entirely […]
Book Review: Dispossessed by Piper Mejia
October 8, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IFWG Publishing Australia (2021) ISBN: 978-1-925956-83-2 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Dispossessed is a character-driven debut YA novel from New Zealand author Piper Mejia. With unusual traits and a rapidly changing physical presence, sixteen-year–old foster child Slate is a perpetual loner who is used to rejection. When Malice, a woman claiming […]
Book Review: Unchosen by Katharyn Blair
October 5, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Katherine Tegen Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062657640 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Two years ago, the world was cursed with an infection that spread through direct eye contact, turning the infected into bloodthirsty, cannibalistic killers whose personalities and intelligence degrade over time, leaving only the monster behind. An infected […]
Book Review: Raising Hell by Bryony Pearce
September 27, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** UClan Publishing, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1912979547 Available: Paperback ( Amazon.com.uk ) Four years ago Ivy Mann and her friends Danny and Elena did a ritual to raise their friend Violet from the dead. Violet came back as a revenant and killed Danny before Ivy was able to stop her, and […]
Vault Review: Silver Kiss by Naomi Clark
September 24, 2021**Reposted from the Monster Librarian Vault** Queered Fiction, 2010ISBN: 978-1920441128Available: New, print and digital Some books wrap themselves up in the tropes of a genre like a comfortable blanket, and others seem to transcend genre and theme with their very nature. Silver Kiss is one of these. Labeled an “urban werewolf novel”, it’s the tale […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Melville House Publishing, 2019 ISBN-13 : 978-1612197920 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Sady Doyle has written a witty, chatty, insightful, and angry book on female monstrosity. Her premise is that women who claim ownership over their voices and bodies are constructed as monsters because they violate […]
The Strain is a novel series which helped relaunch the vampires in horror genre after die hard horror fans got tired of seeing vampire appear in more romantic forms elsewhere. Its wikipage is here. It has been adapted into a TV series and a graphic novel. -Michele The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck […]