Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson Simon & Schuster, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-5344-7092-7 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Virgil Knox is a gay teen who has moved from Seattle to live with his grandparents in his father’s rural hometown in the South with his father while his parents resolve their divorce. Following a party, he finds himself […]
Category: shapeshifters
**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Zuda Comics, 2009 ISBN: 9781401224622 Available: New High Moon presents an intriguing mix of horror and western. High Noon started out as a webcomic at the Zuda Comics site and won a competition where the viewers of the site voted for their favorite comic. The premise is fairly straightforward. Cole, a criminal who […]
New American Library, 1983 ISBN: 0451822196 Available: New and Used Cycle of the Werewolf is a good old fashioned basic werewolf book. The book chronicles a series of werewolf attacks in the small Maine town of Tarker’s Mills on a month by month basis. Marty Coslaw, a 10 year old boy, who is confined to a […]
Essential Werewolf Book Review: Lost Prince by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
October 17, 2021**This is a review from the ML Vault, included here as a book essential to the Werewolf/Shapeshifter subgenre** Borderlands Press, 2008ISBN: 9871880325988Available: New Lost Prince is a heavy read from the beginning. That’s not to say it’s not enjoyable, the detail and scope of the story is overwhelming at times, before considering that the setting is […]
Essential Werewolf Book Review: Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
October 10, 2021**This review comes from the ML Vault, but is part of our series on books essential to the Werewolf/Shapeshifter subgenre** Harper, 2008 ISBN: 978-0061430220 Available: New Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow is the best urban dark fiction since S.P. Somtow. Sharp Teeth is a widely heralded innovative novel, a modern werewolf (werecanine in any case) story written entirely […]
Vault Review: Silver Kiss by Naomi Clark
September 24, 2021**Reposted from the Monster Librarian Vault** Queered Fiction, 2010ISBN: 978-1920441128Available: New, print and digital Some books wrap themselves up in the tropes of a genre like a comfortable blanket, and others seem to transcend genre and theme with their very nature. Silver Kiss is one of these. Labeled an “urban werewolf novel”, it’s the tale […]
Book Review: Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent
April 28, 2021Red Wolf is a retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairytale by author of the Soul Screamers series Rachel Vincent. A perennial favorite of mine, I couldn’t help snatching it up when I saw the title on Netgalley. Adele lives with her mother and younger sister in a small village surrounded by a […]
Book Review: Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba
August 17, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019 ISBN-13: 978 -1789140798 Available: Hardcover Do you know the origin of the word berserk? Have you heard about a community of vampires in Buffalo, New York? Do you think of Jesus as a shapeshifter? These are some examples […]
TV Review: Teen Wolf Season 5
February 23, 2019Oh, Teen Wolf, you are such a fine example of some good being mired in some thick, bad, tired, sorry, writing muck. Last season I felt like the writers were trying to push Scott, Styles, and the OW (original werewolf) crew out. This season is even worse. No Derek at all! In this season an […]
Book Review: The Lost Saint by Bree DeSpain
January 7, 2019EgmontUSA; Reprint edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-1606842355 Available: New and Used The Lost Saint is the second book in Bree Despain’s YA werewolf series. It is the sequel to The Dark Divine, and takes place ten months after the events that close Despain’s previous book. The book tells the story of Grace Divine, who is in a relationship […]