**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** (Bookshop.com | Amazon.com ) DC Comics, 2020 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, comixology Set in 1886 New York, Daphne Byrne is still in mourning over the death of her father and has been affected greatly upon his passing. She’s tormented at school by the popular girls. She’s grappling with her mother who has […]
Book Review: Writing In The Dark by Tim Waggoner
March 12, 2021**Reposted from the Circulation Desk.** Guide Dog Books, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1947879195 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) To properly review this book, I believe a writer needs to be at the helm. New writing manuals crop up so often, it’s tough to decipher which are worthy additions to your collection. I challenge any […]
Vault Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
March 10, 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.** Grand Central Publishing, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1455503063 Available: New and kindle Less than a generation […]
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 […]
Essential Vampire Series: ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
March 5, 2021‘Salem’s Lot, published in 1975, was an archetypical, but very popular vampire horror novel that embraced Pre-Anne Rice era traditions of a monstrous vampire feeding off of humanity. The book’s Wikipage is here. Again, the book is much more adult in nature, but is widely considered an essential vampire book, and most people are introduced […]
**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.** 2011(revised edition) HarperCollins ISBN: 9780062094117 Available: Paperback, Kindle, Audiocassette, Hardcover Abarat: Days of Magic, […]
Mad Cave Studios, April 21, 2021 Availability: Pre-Order ISBM978195230306751499 **I received a free copy of this book from Netgally.com** Villainous follows one of the newest junior members of the Coalition of Heroes, Tilly (Rep-Tilly), as she discovers not everything in the COH is what it’s cracked up to be. What’s a girl to do when […]
RPG Review: Scion (First Edition) by White Wolf
February 26, 2021Scion is one of the core games in my gaming group, and has been since the first edition was released. Players are the mortal children of the ancient gods, the Hercules and Achilles, Imhotep and Sudika-Mbambi, Cú Chulainn and Wonder Woman of the modern times. Whether they are doing their parent’s bidding, completely clueless as […]
Vault Review: Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker
February 24, 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.** 2011, HarperCollins ISBN: 978-0060291716 Available: New and digital. Abarat: Absolute Midnight is the third […]
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 […]