**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.** Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer HMH Books for Young Readers, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1328863553 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audio CD Only Ashes Remain is the follow-up to Not Even Bones (previously reviewed here). At the beginning of this book, Nita and Kovit have escaped from the Death Market, leaving chaos […]
Category: YA books
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]