**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 […]
Category: YA books
Book Review: Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus
October 12, 2021**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk** Henry Holt & Co., 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1250151674 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Liv’s father disappeared for four days and returned with vague memories of alien abduction. Becoming more and more erratic, he lost his job and retreated to the shed in his backyard where he built weapons […]
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 […]
Book Review: Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent
April 28, 2021Red Wolf is a retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairytale by author of the Soul Screamers series Rachel Vincent. A perennial favorite of mine, I couldn’t help snatching it up when I saw the title on Netgalley. Adele lives with her mother and younger sister in a small village surrounded by a […]
Vault Review: Fearless by Cornelia Funke
April 7, 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.** Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0316056106 Available: New Hardcopy, paperback, audiobook, […]
Vault Review: Dark Talisman by Steven M. Booth
April 2, 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.** Azimuth Books, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-615-79725-0 Available: Pre-order, hardcover Steven Booth has delivered a […]
Book Review: Fractured Tide by Leslie Lutz
March 17, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** ( Bookshop.com | Amazon.com ) Blink, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0310770107 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Seventeen-year-old Sia is essential in her mother’s business of chartering trips for tourists wanting to scuba dive. A newbie scuba diver she has been assigned to help navigate a shipwreck is lost, and in her search for him, […]
Book Review: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
March 8, 2021**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** HarperTeen, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0062854599 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Clown in a Cornfield has the cover art, title, and pacing I’d expect from a pulp paperback from the 1970s-1980s, but a very contemporary feel. It takes place in a small, rural town in Missouri. Quinn Maybrook has just moved […]