Razorbill, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1595144676 Available: New Amy chose to go into cryogenic storage with her parents on the spaceship Godspeed, believing she’d wake up a hundred years later to help establish a new world. Instead, she wakes up early, to discover that society has drastically altered, with a dictatorial leader, Eldest, in charge of an unquestioning, […]
Book Review: The Man on Mystery Hill by Tracy L. Carbone
September 10, 2019Quake, 2010 ISBN: 9781590806708 Availability: New Abby McNabb’s father is “eccentric,” at least according to the rest of the town. He believes in ghosts and aliens, and he’s passed that on to Abby. When a mysterious spirit hints to Abby that her father might not be from this planet, it’s up to her to […]
Graphic Novel Review: Ms. Marvel volume 3: Crushed
September 7, 2019Kamala Khan continues her super hero adventures by training with Medusa and the Inhumans, and by foiling Loki’s attempts to be a good guy. The last volume dealt with some major villainy. This volume deals with (seemingly) smaller crimes, side quests, and the emotional fall out of being a super hero. Not all the Inhumans […]
Ripley Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 9781893951525 Availability: New and Used The Ripley’s Bureau of Investigation (RBI) is a collection of teenagers that go on undercover missions to uncover the truth about reports of the unbelievable. In A Scaly Tale, there are rumors of a man-like lizard living in the Everglades, and it’s up to them to determine whether […]
Book Review: Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
September 3, 2019Penguin Group, 2010 ISBN: 9780142416723 Available: New Kelly Link taps into teenagers’ darkest emotions in Pretty Monsters. The selfishness and ego of a boy who attempts to dig up his dead girlfriend’s grave so he can reclaim the poetry he buried with her; the anger and fear at being singled out; the cruelty friends and siblings can […]
Anime Crash Course: Castlevania
August 31, 2019Like vampires and demons and snark? Then this is an anime for you. Inspired by the Castlevania video game franchise, this series follows Vlad Dracula and his vampires as they try to exterminate the human race and Trevor Belmont, Alucard Dracula, and magician Sypha Belnades as they try to stop the genocide. Castlevania contains violence […]
Book Review: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
August 29, 2019Scholastic, 2007 ISBN: 0439813786 Available: New Brian Selznick (The Boy With A Thousand Faces) has once again produced a homage to early horror movies. Fourteen year old Hugo Cabret winds the clocks of a busy Paris train station in secrecy, hoping that nobody will notice the absence of his uncle, the station’s timekeeper. Successfully hiding […]
Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivelä BOOM! Studios, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1684152452 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Hugo Award-nominated novelist Saladin Ahmed gives us the story of journalist Elena Abbott, who is investigating police brutality and corruption in 1972 Detroit. There are crimes being committed by the very people sworn to protect and serve. Elena doesn’t […]
Bone Parish Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn, art by Jonas Scharf BOOM! Studios, 2018 ISBN: 9781684153541 Available: Paperback Bone Parish is, frankly, one of the better Stoker-nominated books I read for Monster Librarian. As a new fan of the Harrow County series, I like Bunn’s writing style. While this is a departure from the backwoods of that Southern Gothic […]
Book Review: Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows
June 25, 2019Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows by J.M. Bergen Elandrian Press, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1732457805 ISBN-10: 1732457808 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition “Magic is real, Thomas”. Those were the last words Thomas Wildus’ father said to him. Thomas is a geeky, mischievous, bullied, preteen, whose father disappeared several years ago. He loves to read books about magic, […]