Secret Origins Part 1 When Superman shows up as Batman’s staking out a space research facility things go sour. Not that Superman is incapable, but the alien infection/invasion happening is outside of both men’s prior experiences. Something at the site gives Superman strange visions that haunt him as he goes about his normal superhero life […]
Soul Eater Part 1 Episode 7
February 13, 2016Black-blooded Terror- There’s a Weapon Inside Crona? While in Italy hunting down a serial killer with a kishin soul Soul and Maka run into a church where a corrupt meister has just devoured 60 human souls. Crona, it turns out, is a wicked-twisted meister, corrupted by a witch, his blood is his weapon, Ragnarok. He […]
Review: BloodRealms by Aurora Whittet
February 11, 2016Werewolf Princess, chosen one of the legends and eligible bachelorette is back. This is the second book in a series, and…I tried to like it. I really did. I love the cover. The back blurb frames the Chosen One story in a way that makes it sound like Ashling is trying to fight for some […]
Book Review: The Blood Guard by Carter Roy
February 9, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk Two Lions, 2014 ISBN: 9781477847251 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition The Blood Guard is the first book in a trilogy by Carter Roy. In this snarky comic adventure, we meet Evelyn Ronan Truelove (who simply wishes to be called Ronan). Ronan is an oddball. A bit of a loner, his mother has […]
Soul Eater: Part 1 Episode 6
February 6, 2016The New Student: Kid’s First Day at the Academy- Will it be an Entrance to Remember? In the last Episode Death the Kid voluntarily became an Academy student in order to help budding meisters he thought were in danger. In this episode he has to actually start showing up, therefore exposing himself to the […]
Review: The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever by Jeff Strand
February 5, 2016Strand is known for his humorous horror books. My favorites are A Bad Day for Voodoo and Wolf Hunt (the last is very much not YA). His loyal readers might come into this one expecting a teenage zombie movie getting taken over by real zombies. And they will be disappointed (but he says so at […]
Book Review: The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
February 3, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-0399256622 Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle edition, Audio Secret societies, mass murder, a journey into the land between life and death, and a cataclysmic event that threatens to destroy all of London—The Shadow Cabinet is full of action, intrigue, and answers that are exactly what fans of […]
Musings: Invisible Disabilities in Horror for YA Readers
February 1, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk, By Kirsten Disability is one way that monsters are created in the horror genre. Monstrosity is usually expressed visually, though, especially in the classic texts– think The Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mr. Hyde of Jekyll and Hyde fame. Or if we don’t actually see the disfigurement, […]
Soul Eater: Part 1: Episode 5
January 30, 2016Shape of the Soul- Enter The Ultimate Meister Stein? After defeating Sid the zombie the Soul Eater crew goes after Sid’s maker, the totally twisted Dr. Stein. Once a Meister (who experimented on Maka’s father for years and helped turn him into the sobbing mess he is today) Dr. Stein went off the rails in […]
Book Review: Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
January 28, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk Disney-Hyperion, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1484720974 Available: Hardcover, Audible, Audio CD, Kindle edition The premise of Isle of the Lost is that all the Disney villains, along with their children, have been imprisoned on an island without any magic or access to technology, by King Beast (of Beauty and the Beast). King Beast […]