**This review is from the Monster Librarian archives.** Authorhouse, 2007 Hyperion Books for Children,2006 ISBN: 0786851627 Available: New Marty and Grace O’Hara are bright and resourceful twins, opposite in temperament and interest. When their parents go missing after a terrible accident, the twins are plucked from their Swiss boarding school to live with their […]
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 […]
T.V. Review: Lucifer season 2
October 26, 2019Another of the best things about this series is the stability of quality. In season two Lucifer adds in new characters, Charlotte Richards (being possessed by the exiled goddess of all creation) and Ella (an off-beat forensic scientist) who both immediately become entangled with the establish crew. As Lucifer and Amenadiel try to protect the […]
**This review is from the Monster Librarian archives.** ISBN:9781425980726 Available: New In an extra dimensional space a powerful young lady by the name of Pandora resides. Pandora, seek to remake a plane of existence called The Void to suit her wishes. In order to do so she captures people from our world who have […]
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 […]
**Cross Posted from the Monster Librarian Circulation Desk.** Slasher Girls & Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke Speak, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-014751408 Available: Slasher Girls & Monster Boys is an anthology of stories by YA authors, including Kendare Blake, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Ryan, Leigh Bardugo, and Marie Lu. Each story is based on a horror movie, television […]
Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer HMH Books for Young Readers, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1328863546 Available: Hardcover, paperback, and Kindle edition If you are planning to start this book, make sure you have plenty of time to finish it, because if you put it down, unless you have a very strong stomach, you may find it […]
Making History: Three One-Session RPGs by Tristan Zimmerman
October 12, 2019Molten Sulfur Press This collection of games offers players the ability to “make history” by hunting walrus ivory on Greenland with Vikings, investigating a murder in the Native American city of Cahokia, and by battling a djinni on a modern navy ship. Each adventure is completely stand-alone and contains the characters and hand outs needed […]
Book Review: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey– Two Reviews!
October 10, 2019The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 9781416987987 Available: Hardcover, paperback, mass market paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook In The Monstrumologist, twelve year old Will Henry is thrust into danger when a grave robber brings a horrifying creature to his mentor, Dr. Warthrop, in the middle of the night. Dr. Warthrop is a […]
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014 ISBN: 978-1442465954 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Carroll’s Through the Woods includes five short sequential art stories, each one atmospheric and eerie. In “Our Neighbor’s House,” sisters Mary, Beth, and Hannah are left on their own after their father goes out to hunt, with instructions to […]