And now, for Women in Horror Month, reviewer David Simms interviews Lauren Oliver. Lauren is the author of many YA novels, including theDelirium trilogy, Before I Fall, and Panic (soon to be a movie). She has also written for adults (Rooms) and children( The Spindlers and Liesl & Po). Her newest book, the YA thriller Vanishing Girls, will be released in March […]
Review: Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
March 10, 2015Young adult fiction has been getting darker and more realistic with each year. Lauren Oliver has been at the helm for much of it, beginning with Before I Fall and followed by the immensely successful Delirium series. While dystopian YA has been the main thrust of the genre for years, culminating with The Hunger Games and Divergent, teens also have been clamoring for […]
Robot God Akamatsu is the first volume of a YA graphic novel series. Back in the days of Atlantis, humanity was protected by the titular Robot God Akamatsu and the three pilots who operated the robot god from a space station orbiting the Earth. To engage the Robot God, they would invoke the term Deus […]
Review: The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
March 3, 2015In The Book of Dead Days, Marcus Sedgwick introduces us to Boy, a teenage orphan who is the servant and apprentice to a stage magician named Valerian. Valerian is on a quest to find a book that will help him get out of a deal he made with supernatural forces to give up his life in […]
Four of Poe’s classic tales are presented here. In The Black Cat, a man blames his black cat for his descent into murder and madness, The Masque of the Red Death is a tale about nobles who hole up in a castle in an attempt to escape the disease that is ravaging the countryside. Hop-Frog is a story about a […]
Review: Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
February 24, 2015Joseph Bruchac retells a tale from the Mohawk Indians about a man who was so hungry he ate his own flesh, leaving nothing but a skeleton, and then ate the rest of his family with the exception of a young niece. In Bruchac’s story, Molly’s parents mysteriously disappear one evening without a trace. Molly is […]
Review: Clay by David Almond
February 19, 2015In Clay, David Almond introduces us to David, an altar boy who occasionally drinks a little extra communion wine and smokes stolen cigarettes with his friend Geordie. David’s life changes when he befriends Stephen Rose, a new arrival in town, at the request of the local priest. Stephen turns out to be a gifted sculptor. As […]
Ghosts of Albion: Initiation introduces us to the Victorian world of William and Tamara Swift. The siblings have abruptly discovered they have inherited their grandfather’s responsibilities as magical protectors of Albion, the soul of England, when he is killed in front of them by were-beasts. Aided by the ghosts of Bodicea, Lord Byron, and Lord Admiral […]
Review: Devil’s Footsteps by E.E. Richardson
February 13, 2015When Bryan was ten, his older brother, Adam, disappeared, taken by the Dark Man. At fifteen, Bryan meets Stephen, who has seen the Dark Man, and Jake, who has had his best friend taken by the Dark Man. The three boys go on a quest to uncover the secret of the Dark Man and find […]
Third in the series, the continuing saga of siblings Aimee and Shane Lancaster, descendants of Ichabod Crane, who is responsible for the many demons, spirits, and creatures that haunt Sleepy Hollow. Aimee and Shane feel a duty to track down and stop these critters that their ancestor has unleashed upon the town. In this installment, […]