**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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Rutgers University Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781978805118 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Women working in the horror industry today are severely underrepresented. Although they have been making horror for centuries, many women have been cut out of that history and/or had their authorship and creative influence denied. What is more, […]
**Reposted from the Circulation Desk.** Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781946335319 Available: Paperback ( Bookshop.org ) Prince Prospero, trying to avoid a deadly plague, the Red Death, ravaging the land, walls himself up inside his abbey along with a number of other wealthy nobles. To combat the boredom, the prince hosts a masquerade ball within seven rooms […]
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 […]
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 […]