Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil, illustrations by George Williams Oni Press, 2023 ISBN: 9781637152362 Available: Paperback, KIndle edition Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com It’s 1979. Mitch wakes up after a terrible assault near the local Y. His friends scold him for going there alone and take him home to recuperate. There’s also been a murder in the […]
Category: historical fiction
Book Review: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
May 23, 2024Siren Queen by Nghi Vo Tor.com, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1250788832 Available: Hardcover, paperback, library binding, KIndle edition, audiobook Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com This is not so much a horror novel as it is an homage to classic monster movies and a critique of golden-age Hollywood. Readers looking for blood and gore will not find […]
**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson Quill Tree Books, 2023 ISBN-13: 978-0063260795 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com I have enjoyed Kosoko Jackson’s previous YA books, the dystopian Survive the Dome and the time travel novel Yesterday is History, both with Black queer boys as protagonists. The […]
BOOK REVIEW: THE MONSTERS WE DEFY BY LESLYE PENELOPE
March 4, 2024**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope. Redhook, 2022 ISBN-13 978-0316377911 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, Audible Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com The Monsters We Defy takes place in an alternate Washington, D.C. during the Harlem Renaissance. This world has Enigmas (similar to demons) who will offer you a gift (Charm) always in company with […]
BOOK REVIEW: THE MIDNIGHT GIRLS BY ALICIA JASINSKA
February 21, 2024**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska Sourcebooks Fire, 2022 ISBN-13: 978-1728209753 Available: Hardcover, paperback, audiobook, Kindle edition. Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com The Midnight Girls takes place in a fantasy kingdom based on the Kingdom of Poland at the end of the 18th century, which was torn apart by wars with […]
BOOK REVIEW: IN THE LAIR OF LEGENDS BY DAVID BUZAN
February 12, 2024**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** In The Lair of Legends by David Buzan Black Rose Writing, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-68513-250-7 (Paperback), 978-1-68513-331-3 (Hardcover) Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com In The Lair of Legends by David Buzan is a well-written, exciting tale that combines action, myth and history. Jolon Winterhawk is a Nez Perce warrior who […]
Book Musings: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
September 13, 2022The Witching Hour by Anne Rice is not a book for teens. It really isn’t. And yet, as I’m watching book banning cases pop up, like this one in Virginia, I’m seeing in the comments, over and over “But I read Anne Rice when I was 13.” And…well I did. I first read Anne Rice […]
Book Review: Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
March 22, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Wednesday Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1250787101 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Within These Wicked Walls takes its inspiration from the classic gothic romance Jane Eyre. Set in England, Jane is an orphan who arrives to work as a governess in Thornfield Hall, home to the wealthy Edward […]
TV Review: Doctor Who Season One (2005)
March 19, 2022There’s no question that Doctor Who is a long time essential speculative fiction world. The 2005 reboot propelled the title into the lives of a new generation of people, building a wonderful world of a unique mesh of science fiction, fantasy, and, yes, horror. My first exposure to the Doctor came from horror, namely the […]
Book Review: Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
January 13, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Quirk Books, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781683692157 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Audible audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Whisper Down the Lane, a true-crime based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the 1980s, is the second book by Clay McLeod Chapman I have read and it just makes it […]