When last we met the Struckers were reeling from the children being kidnapped and forced to perform as lab monkeys for Dr. Campbell (who used the data he gathered to develop his own way to fuse mutant powers to enhance his Hound program, the program where he brainwashes mutants into hunting down and killing or […]
Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter by Marcus Sedgwick, art by Thomas Taylor First Second, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781626720268 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Scarlett Hart is the orphaned daughter of two legendary monster hunters, and is determined to carry on in her family business. However, two obstacles consistently get in her way. The Royal Academy for the […]
Book Review: Sleepless by Thomas Fahy
April 24, 2018Simon & Schuster, 2009 ISBN: 9781416959014 Availability: New and Used After a trip to New Orleans, the students of Saint Opportuna High begin to have nightmares: horrible nightmares about killing people. The only problem is that they aren’t just nightmares. After several nights, the students wake up to realize that they actually have killed […]
Book Review: Devoured by Amanda Marrone
April 17, 2018Simon Pulse, 2009 ISBN: 9781416978909 Availability: September 2009 Megan just wants to make sure that her new boyfriend, Ryan, stays out of the clutches of his smitten best friend, Samantha. That’s why she’s working for the summer at the Land of Enchantment, an amusement park filled with fairy tale princesses. But when the ghost […]
Book Review: Monster’s Proof by Richard Lewis
April 10, 2018Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4169-3591-9 Available: New Ten year old Darby Ell is brilliant at mathematics, but not so good at being liked. Intrigued by the “thingamabob conjecture” his aunt Ludy discovered just before she went bananas, he becomes obsessed with proving it. As he works on it, the […]
Book Review: Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
April 5, 2018Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie AlendeDisney Hyperion, 2009 ISBN: 9781423108764 Availability: New and Used Alexis, a budding photographer and anti-popular-kids activist, lives in the oldest house in town. Like all old houses, this one has a long and strange history, and some very odd things begin to happen after a photo shoot in […]
Book Review: ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley
April 3, 2018Little Brown Books Young Readers, 2008 ISBN: 9780316113571 Available: New Charlotte Usher is friendless. She wants to be noticed, but her classmates, including handsome, popular Damen Dylan, don’t know she’s alive. And then she chokes to death. Charlotte has unfinished business, though, and she ends up in Dead Ed with other teenage ghosts. She […]
Anime Crash Course: Inuyasha
April 1, 2018Inuyasha is one of the essential anime series. It certainly is the one that got me into the genre. Inuyasha is about a teenage girl, Kagome, who discovers she’s the reincarnation of a powerful priestess when a demon attacks her ad she falls through an old well at a shrine and ends up in the […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E11 3×1
March 31, 2018Feeling like they are a risk to the MU after the events at Trask Industries, the Strucker parents decide to leave the commune. Between the kid’s power, Dreamer’s death, and Dr. Campbell targeting them, they feel the MU would be able to operate better without having to protect them. Andy disagrees. He wants to make […]
The Westwood Witches by El Torres, art by Abel Garcia Amigo Comics, 2015 ISBN: 9788416074761 Available: print, comiXology ebook The Westwood Witches opens with a man running for his life. His pursuers, a coven of witches, punish him for his lack of neighborly respect. After they are finished with him, they use his near-dead body as a […]