Puffin, April , 2000 ISBN: 0141306939 Available: New and Used This is probably the first young adult novel to deal frankly with rape and its aftermath. Gail, a high school junior living in a charming New England town, is getting obscene notes and phone calls. She doesn’t want to think about it, her best […]
Astonishing X-Men v.1: Gifted
January 16, 2019A new class is starting at Xavier’s Institute, lead by Hank McCoy (Beast), Scott Summers (Jerk, I mean, Cyclops), Emma Frost (ex-villain), and Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat). Kitty is conflicted about the class and working with a major bad guy she grew up with, Emma. But if there is anything Emma wants to do it’s helping […]
Book Review: Underworld by Catherine Macphail
January 14, 2019Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books, July, 2005 ISBN: 1582349975 Pages: 250 Underworld looks on its cover that this some sort of underground monster horror book, however the true terror is more about what happens when a group of students trapped in a series of caves with no adults. Before going into the caves the students are told […]
TV Review: Teen Wolf season 3
January 12, 2019One of my favorite seasons, this incarnation of Teen Wolf pits True Alpha Scott and human sidekick Styles against an evil, wickedly nefarious kitsune (OMG, possessing Styles! Styles gets to go dark!) with a legion of oni-ninjas at his control. Aiden and Ethan, former bad guys trying to earn Scott’s trust, are powerful, sympathetic characters. […]
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Atheneum, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1481438254 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Fifteen-year-old Will’s brother Shawn has just been shot and killed by a member of a local gang. Will knows the rules: don’t cry, don’t snitch, and if someone you love gets killed, find the person who killed them and […]
I haven’t read a lot of Wonder Woman before. DC and Justice League always struck me as a major boy’s club, which typically played in line with normal gender roles I learned growing up. I had Wonder Woman underoos, but never really investigated who the character was outside of the token female sidekick to Batman […]
Book Review: The Lost Saint by Bree DeSpain
January 7, 2019EgmontUSA; Reprint edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-1606842355 Available: New and Used The Lost Saint is the second book in Bree Despain’s YA werewolf series. It is the sequel to The Dark Divine, and takes place ten months after the events that close Despain’s previous book. The book tells the story of Grace Divine, who is in a relationship […]
Book Review: Red by Kait Nolan
January 4, 2019Amazon Digital Services, 2011 ASIN: B005HB8PN6 Available: Kindle and Nook The women in Elodie’s family have all been cursed with lycanthropy that surfaces during their sixteenth year, and all of them have met violent ends after giving birth to a child, always a girl. At seventeen, Elodie has managed to avoid anything that might rouse […]
Book Review: Ms. Marvel v2: Generation Why
January 2, 2019Oh, how I loved this book. This is the second volume of the new Ms. Marvel line from Marvel. Kamala Khan is a young girl with super powers. She is Inhuman, so she gained her powers through Kree tech, but isn’t the Ms. Marvel–Carol Danvers–who first donned the mantle. Instead she is part of a […]
Book Review: Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
December 31, 2018Scholastic Press, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0545259088 Available: New Hardcover and Kindle Forever is the third book in the popular series The Wolves of Mercy Falls. Of the three books, Forever is the longest and the least focused of the three. The beginning, though, is completely baffling. It’s told from the point of view of a female werewolf, Shelby, in wolf […]