Dial, October 28, 2010 ISBN: 978-0803734548 Available: New In 1973, when Richard Peck was just starting out as a writer, Robert Cormier’s book The Chocolate War, in which a student seized control of his high school from adult authority figures and brutally bullied his peers, changed YA literature forever. Three Quarters Dead is Peck’s contemporary response to […]
Viking Juvenile, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0670011599 Available: New In the introduction to A Girl, a Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills, the author explains that her intent is to portray a “Hamlet-inspired ghost story unlike any other”, and there are obvious similarities. Holly has gone off to the East Coast at the start of her freshman year […]
Razorbill, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1595142917 Available: New The Evil Within is the second book in the Possessions series, of which I have not read the first; however, after completing this one, I’ll be picking up the first book and all that follow it. Nancy Holder has created an incredibly spooky tale full of scorned lovers, murders, attempted […]
Book Review: Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
June 19, 2018The fact that I’m just now writing reviews after almost 2 years since I promised my mom I would, just shows I’m either lazy or the world’s #1 procrastinator. Seven Ways We Lie is a teen fiction written by Riley Redgate. It follows seven teens; Olivia and Kat Scott, Juniper Kipling, Claire Lombardi, Matt Jackson, […]
Welcome to the Apocalypse, Book One: Pandora by D. L. Richardson CreateSpace, 2016 ISBN: 9781370736201 Available: Paperback, eBook(Kindle, Smashwords) Want to get away from it all but don’t have the time? Want to experience an apocalypse firsthand? Want to be a hero and save people from zombies or aliens? Then welcome to the apocalypse! […]
Mr. Higgins Comes Home by Mike Mignola, art by Warwick Johnson-Caldwell Dark Horse, 2017 ISBN: 9781506704661 Available: print, ebook Mr. Higgins Comes Home is an original graphic novel by Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Caldwell. The household at Castle Golga are planning for the annual festival of Walpurigsnacht, as a pair of vampire killers question a man […]
Hellboy in Hell, Library Edition by Mike Mignola, art by Mike Mignola Dark Horse, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1-50670-363-3 Available: Hardcover Hellboy in Hell, Library Edition contains storylines originally collected in the trade paperbacks The Descent and The Death Card, and takes place after The Storm and the Fury. In the opening chapter, we witness Hellboy’s liberation from an abyss by Sir Edward Gray, followed […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E13 X-roads
May 19, 2018While the leaders of the MU try to capture Dr. Campbell and stop his Hound program before it can get the support to go national (and thus sentence MORE mutants to brainwashing and slavery) Reed, Cait, and the mutants at MU headquarters get to face down Jace Turner and a few of Campbell’s Hounds. The […]
Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir, art by Christina “Steenz” Stewart Oni Press, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781620104705 Available: Paperback After losing her job at the library due to her failing mental health, Celeste “Cel” Walden lands an archivist job at the Logan Museum, previously a sanitarium. The position, she finds out quickly, is a bit odd. […]
Army of Darkness/Xena Warrior Princess: Forever and a Day by Scott Lobdell, art by Elliot Fernandez Dynamite Entertainment, 2017 ISBN-13: 9781524103514 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, and comiXology ebook The Army of Darkness/Xena Warrior Princess: Forever and a Day storyline opens with Xena holding her wounded life companion, Gabrielle, after her army has been destroyed by the ultimate evil. […]