Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivelä BOOM! Studios, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1684152452 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Hugo Award-nominated novelist Saladin Ahmed gives us the story of journalist Elena Abbott, who is investigating police brutality and corruption in 1972 Detroit. There are crimes being committed by the very people sworn to protect and serve. Elena doesn’t […]
Tag: 2018 Stoker Awards
Bone Parish Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn, art by Jonas Scharf BOOM! Studios, 2018 ISBN: 9781684153541 Available: Paperback Bone Parish is, frankly, one of the better Stoker-nominated books I read for Monster Librarian. As a new fan of the Harrow County series, I like Bunn’s writing style. While this is a departure from the backwoods of that Southern Gothic […]
Book Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
June 13, 2019Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Balzer + Bray, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0062570604 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Editor’s note: Due to its topic and content, Dread Nation contains racial slurs and outdated language. I’m using “Negro” in this review as it is the term used throughout the book. In this alternate history, the Civil War […]
The Night Weaver (Shadow Grove, Vol. 1) by Monique Snyman Gigi Publishing, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1643163031 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Seventeen-year-old Rachel Cleary lives in the isolated community of Shadow Grove (it’s unclear how isolated, or how large, it actually is, as it has suburbs, a trendy downtown, three grocery stores, multiple chain stores, and a […]
Book Review: Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry
June 9, 2019Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry Simon and Schuster, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1534406377 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook I will be honest, I am not a fan of zombie fiction. As a reviewer, I am putting my feelings about the genre as a whole to the side to review Broken Lands because it is on the final ballot for […]
Book Review: Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
June 7, 2019Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand Katherine Tegen Books, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0062696601 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD My previous experience with Claire Legrand’s work was with her extremely creepy middle-grade book The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls. I could see just from the cover and inside flap of this book that her YA work […]
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White Delacorte, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0525577942 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Elizabeth Lavenza is the ultimate example of the “cool girl” described by Amy Dunne in Gone Girl: she is never herself, always what someone else (usually a man) needs her to be. An orphan purchased […]