**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.** Hyperion Voice, 2009 ISBN: 9781401340902 Available: New and Used This book is not horror, […]
TV Review: Arrow Season 3
January 22, 2021With this season the battle in Oliver Queen over whether he is a terrible person and dangerous to everyone around him or not peaks and crashes. As a romance buds between Oliver and my absolutely favorite character, Felicity Smoak, builds, so does Oliver’s survivor’s guilt. No wonder Felicity gets upset because certainly such thoughts haven’t […]
Book Review: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
January 20, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power Delacorte Press, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-0525645627 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Seventeen-year-old Margot, trapped in a disturbing codependent relationship with her abusive mother, finally finds an escape after discovering she has a grandmother living just outside Phalene, a small […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Coach House Books, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-1552453957 Available: Paperback, audiobook, Kindle edition Although Disfigured focuses on the relationship between fairy tales and disability, there is a lot here that should provide food for thought in the horror genre, where […]
TV Review: Arrow Season 2
January 15, 2021Many writers have focused on the conflict between Green Arrow, the vigilante, and Oliver Queen, the wealthy businessman in the comics and in commentary on the legacy of Green Arrow. In this season of Arrow writers wholly embrace this conflict. Oliver is clearly no longer the Oliver everyone knew before the island. Like many people […]
Book Review: I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
January 11, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Little, Brown, Books for Young Readers, 2013 ISBN-13: 9780316125833 Available: Hardcover, paperback, mass market paperback, Kindle edition, audio CD Jasper is the 17 year old son of notorious serial killer Billy Dent. The trauma of being raised by Billy teaching him […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Hopeless, Maine (vol. 1) by Tom and Nimue Brown ( Amazon.com ) Sloth Comics, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781908830128 Available: Paperback Hopeless, Maine tells the story of Salamandra, an orphan girl who is taken in to a home for orphans; strangely not many adults are around. Sal discovers the strange and sometimes nightmarish creatures […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Supernatural: Bobby Singer’s Guide to Hunting by David Reed ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It Books; Original edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-0062103376 Available: Paperback and digital Editor’s note: This review was previously published in 2012 on a now-defunct version of our site. I read a lot of serious, professional, technical books and articles for work, so […]
Book Review: Mayhem by Estelle Laure
January 6, 2021*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Mayhem by Estelle Laure ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Wednesday Books, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781250297938 Available: Hardcover, ebook, audiobook Mayhem Brayburn’s mother fled her home in Santa Maria, California, after her husband Lucas died, cutting all ties and marrying again to another man in a small town in Texas. The tradeoff she’s made is […]
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 […]