As always, there will be spoilers. Second Line was a much easier watch after the emotional yank of the last scene of episode 2 where Deidre is killed. I’m feeling fairly neutral about the flashbacks to Scotland and Suzanne. In the books Suzanne is portrayed as very childlike, someone who had a gift and enjoyed […]
Category: witches
T.V. Review: Mayfair Witches Episode 1: The Witching Hour
January 17, 2023((Why is this YA? Technically it’s not. But in all my experiences most people who dove into the Anne Rice depths started reading her books in their teens. In fact both The Witching Hour and Interview with the Vampire are deeply ingrained stories particularly to the LGBT+ community.)) ((Also, this will have spoilers for […]
Book Musings: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
September 13, 2022The Witching Hour by Anne Rice is not a book for teens. It really isn’t. And yet, as I’m watching book banning cases pop up, like this one in Virginia, I’m seeing in the comments, over and over “But I read Anne Rice when I was 13.” And…well I did. I first read Anne Rice […]
Book List: A Year of Witchy Reads
January 1, 2021My library informed me that this year was the Return of the YA Vampire, and indeed we did see a number of YA vampire novels this year, not least of which was Stephenie Meyer’s latest addition to the Twilight saga, Midnight Sun. For myself, I discovered I had read a number of very good books focused on witches […]
Book Review: The Graces by Laure Eve
October 5, 2020**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Graces by Laure Eve ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Amulet Books, 2016 ISBN-13 : 978-1419721236 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook The narrator of The Graces is new to town, and ready to shed her old identity, including her name. The centers of attention at her school are the Graces, seventeen-year-old twins Thalia and Fenrin, […]
Book Review: Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich
July 12, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0316478472 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Teeth in the Mist tells the stories of three young women, each from a different time period, navigating the terrors of Mill House, a large house located […]
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 […]
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 […]
Book Review: The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab
August 21, 2018Hyperion Book CH, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1423137870 Available: New Hardback and Kindle Near is typically a quiet little town until a “stranger” comes to town. The day after the “stranger” is spotted strange things start to happen. The wind seems to be talking to the townsfolk, and children start disappearing from their beds at night. Is […]