We are definitely building to something big here. While the Struckers try to come to terms with what Otto revealed to them last episode (their great grandparents were terrorists and the kids have the same powers), Esme, the telepath the MU crew just rescued goes a little crazy in her attempts to rescue her family […]
Book Review: Coven- Book Two of the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
February 20, 2018Penguin Group, 2007 ISBN:9780142409879 Available: New and Used In a very short period of time, Morgan Rowland has lost her best friend, gained a boyfriend, and discovered that she is a blood witch. Does that means her parents and sister are blood witches as well, or is there more to her mystery? As Morgan uncovers […]
TV Review: Teen Wolf, Season 1
February 17, 2018One night, while out in the woods investigating half a body found by the Beacon Hills sheriff’s department (because they are so smart), Scott McCall and Stile Stilinski end up in a ton of trouble. Scott is bitten by a werewolf and launched them both into a preternatural world of drama. Sure being a werewolf […]
Book of Shadows-Book One of the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
February 13, 2018Penguin Group, 2007 ISBN: 9780142409862 Available: New Morgan Rowland’s life changes the day she met Cal Blair. When Cal comes to school that first day, his confidence in himself makes every girl want him and every guy want to be him. Cal’s interest, however, is in Morgan. He introduces her to Wiccan practices. Morgan finds […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E8- Threat of eXtinction
February 10, 2018Ba-boom! This episode has some side plots that get overshadowed, namely Blink, Polaris, and Eclipse’s rescue of hidden, Underground Railroad mutants, and discovery of Campbell’s sleeper agents inside the mutant populace. You have to know this is going to come back up, especially since Campbell outright said there were safeguards in place to prevent the […]
Book Review: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
February 8, 2018Series title:N.A. Publishing Date: October 2007 ISBN:9780385720960 Available in:Kindle,HardCover, PaperBack,Audible,and Audio CD on Amazon. Extra-sensory gifts are not always considered gifts by those who receive them. Such is the case with eight-turning-nine year old Rose Edelstein. Her lemon-flavored birthday cake tastes like aching despair,her brother’s toast is soaked in hallow dread,and the local bake shop […]
HarperCollins, 2006 ISBN: 0060580909 Available: New and Used Molly hasn’t really recovered from her terrifying experience with Skeleton Man, a greedy creature who kidnapped her parents and then posed as her uncle. Although she and her parents escaped, Skeleton Man was never found, and Molly knows he’s out there, planning to get her. Her parents, […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1E7 eXtreme Measures
February 3, 2018One of my favorite episodes so far. Thunderbird starts by hunting down Blink, feeling she is unsafe with the SS crackdown on mutants. This leads to…well some sad stuff, but Blink is back!! She seems to be the character with the most logical head on her shoulders. Not that the Strucker kids are bad, they […]
Book Review: The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
February 1, 2018Series title:The Secret Series Publishing Date: October 2007 ISBN:9780316113694 Available in:Kindle,HardCover, PaperBack,Audible,and Audio CD on Amazon. Cass is an eleven-year old survivalist who may or may not really be named Cass. Max-Ernest is a young compulsive speaker and factoid stocker who may or may not really be named Max-Ernest. The magician? There’s much we know […]
Book Review: The Intruders by E.E. Richardson
January 30, 2018Delacorte Books for Young Readers, August, 2006 ISBN: 0385732643 Available: New In the Intruders Richardson whips up a great pure ghost story. Joel, his sister Cassie and their mother move into a house with his mother’s new fiancé Gerald and his two sons. In addition to coping with the resentment of the children over […]