**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Graces by Laure Eve ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Amulet Books, 2016 ISBN-13 : 978-1419721236 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook The narrator of The Graces is new to town, and ready to shed her old identity, including her name. The centers of attention at her school are the Graces, seventeen-year-old twins Thalia and Fenrin, […]
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Book Review: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
September 14, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Doubleday, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0385541213 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD The Starless Sea starts with a book-loving graduate student, Zachary Ezra Rawlins, who is writing his thesis on video games, finding a mysterious book of stories in his school’s library that includes […]
Book Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee
September 19, 2019In a post-apocalyptic world where the United States has fallen apart due to a deadly virus that leaves survivors with magical abilities (is that not enough to get you to grab this book?) sixteen year old Noam finds himself the only survivor o an outbreak in a refugee neighborhood and suddenly swooped into a world […]
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 […]
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 […]
Anime Crash Course: Ouran High School Host Club
July 26, 2018Ouran High School Host Club is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek manga and anime about Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student at an exclusive (expensive) private school who runs into some trouble with the school host club (more or less, they guys are escorts, without actual sex, playing doting, perfect boyfriends to rich, teenaged girls.) The club forces […]
TV Review: Riverdale Season One
December 9, 2017OMG, this is the come-from-nowhere must see drama of the year. Based on the Archie comic, a pretty expansive collection of comics that runs the gamut from cute and wholesome (Lil Archie) to violent and gory (Afterlife with Archie), Riverdale is a vivid, moody take on the source material. Told from the view of Jughead […]
Afterlife with Archie volume 1: Escape from Riverdale by Roberto Auirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francovilla Archie Comics, 2014 ISBN: 9781619889088 Available: New, used & digital Oh, Riverdale. The iconic small town USA, perpetually stuck in the 1950s, where a boy struggles with such heady things as which girl to invite to a movie Friday night. Archie-with-zombies could have been a […]
Book Review: Water Vamps by G.L. Giles
February 18, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk BlackWyrm Publishing, June 2013 (Second Printing) ISBN-13: 978-1-61318-147-8 Available: Paperback, Kindle Psychic vampire Setiana and her partner, a shape-shifter, stop at an inn for a good day’s sleep. While there, Setiana enters a dream state, and visits a young girl, Robyn, in Charleston, South Carolina. It is Robyn’s 11th birthday, and […]