A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, art by Rafael Albuquerque Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-50670-393-0 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, comiXology edition A Study in Emerald is a Lovecraftian/Doyle mystery featuring a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a murder. The investigation follows the investigators, named only as the Detective and the Major, […]
Harrow County Library Edition Volume 1: by Cullen Bunn, art by Tyler Crook Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 9781506710648 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, comiXology edition Hester Beck is hung and burned for being a witch on the strange, crooked oak tree that stands on the Crawford farm. Emmy experiences recurring dreams about things under the earth. Emmy […]
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D., Vol. 4: 1955 by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson; art by Shawn Martinbrough (Secret Nature), Brian Churilla (Occult Intelligence), and Paolo Rivera and Joe Rivera (Burning Season) Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 9781506705965 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology edition In Hellboy and the B.P.R.D., Vol. 4: 1955, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D hunt down unseen predators […]
Jenny Finn by Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey, art by Troy Nixey and Farel Dalrymple Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 9781427606754 Available: hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology edition A mysterious girl, Jenny Finn, arrives in Victorian England and leaves death, destruction, and a strange curse in her wake. There is a plague causing gruesome lesions in the crooked […]
Book Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
June 13, 2019Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Balzer + Bray, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0062570604 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Editor’s note: Due to its topic and content, Dread Nation contains racial slurs and outdated language. I’m using “Negro” in this review as it is the term used throughout the book. In this alternate history, the Civil War […]
The Night Weaver (Shadow Grove, Vol. 1) by Monique Snyman Gigi Publishing, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1643163031 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Seventeen-year-old Rachel Cleary lives in the isolated community of Shadow Grove (it’s unclear how isolated, or how large, it actually is, as it has suburbs, a trendy downtown, three grocery stores, multiple chain stores, and a […]
Book Review: Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry
June 9, 2019Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry Simon and Schuster, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1534406377 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook I will be honest, I am not a fan of zombie fiction. As a reviewer, I am putting my feelings about the genre as a whole to the side to review Broken Lands because it is on the final ballot for […]
Book Review: Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
June 7, 2019Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand Katherine Tegen Books, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0062696601 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD My previous experience with Claire Legrand’s work was with her extremely creepy middle-grade book The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls. I could see just from the cover and inside flap of this book that her YA work […]
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White Delacorte, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0525577942 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Elizabeth Lavenza is the ultimate example of the “cool girl” described by Amy Dunne in Gone Girl: she is never herself, always what someone else (usually a man) needs her to be. An orphan purchased […]
TV Review: iZombie season 4
March 9, 2019All attempts at keeping zombies a secret are off the table in this season. Instead the zombies are exposed and Fillmore-Graves and their private zombie military take over Seattle and try to control it while outside the rest of the United States considers nuking Seattle from space. Faced with entirely new choices, Liv finds herself […]