A distant follow up to Netflix’s Castlevania series, Nocturne is set during the French Revolution and focuses on Trevor and Sypha’s descendant Richtor Belmont, his adopted sister and magician Maria Renard, Annette, a former slave with Orisha powers, and Edouard, Annette’s best friend and a opera singer. I started watching right after finishing the first […]
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BOOK REVIEW: THE HONEYS BY RYAN LA SALA
March 21, 2023The Honeys by Ryan La Sala PUSH, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1338745313 Available: Hardcover, paperback, KIndle edition, audiobook. ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) When genderfluid teen Mars Matthias’ twin sister Carikube dies violently in front of them after running away from summer camp, Mars insists on attending the camp for the rest of the summer. They agree […]
Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Jeff Edwards Levine Querido, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781646141791 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers makes her YA debut with Man Made Monsters with this 18-story anthology that traces one Cherokee family across time. She starts in the 1830s with the tribe forced off […]
BOOK REVIEW: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US BY ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE
February 2, 2023**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. Peachtree Teen, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1682633243 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Hell Followed with Us is an incredible and original book, but it is not an easy read. It is a scream of rage. Make sure to read the author’s […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062652638 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, Soman Chainani brings us tales so sharp they cut, with teen protagonists who seize their agency, and subversive, unexpected re-visionings of 12 familiar stories. The standout story in this collection […]
Book Review: All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue
January 27, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Walker Books, 2021 ISBN: 978-1536213942 Available: Hardcover, audiobook, ebook (Bookshop.org) O’Donoghue’s foray into YA literature delivers tricks and treats for fans of Gothic, mystic stories dealing with social themes; but magic doesn’t solve everything this character-driven YA paranormal fantasy set in contemporary Ireland. Sentenced to cleanup duty in detention, 16 […]
Book Review: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
February 22, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Swoon Reads, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1250250469 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Yadriel is a Latinx trans boy whose community lives in the cemetery and serves Lady Death. When they are fifteen, boys are presented to Lady Death for a blessing to become […]
Essential Vampire Series: Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
February 12, 2021Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite is an anchor book for two reasons. First, in a world of Anne Rice vampires, super powered, inhuman creatures living adventures far outside the world as we see it, Brite’s vampires are a species outside of humanity. Brite embraces the spirit of the vampire, but not the trappings of […]
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: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
September 14, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Doubleday, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0385541213 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD The Starless Sea starts with a book-loving graduate student, Zachary Ezra Rawlins, who is writing his thesis on video games, finding a mysterious book of stories in his school’s library that includes […]