Book Review: Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk. ** Entangled Teen, 2021 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1649370310 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org |   Amazon.com ) Harley is just about to turn eighteen and escape her abusive father with her younger sister Ray when Draven comes into her life. There’s a chemistry between them she can’t deny, but her life is […]

Graphic Novel Review: Hack/Slash: The First Cut by Tim Seeley, Stefano Caselli, and Federica Manfredi

**Reposted from our archives** Devil’s Due Publishing, October 31, 2005 ISBN:   1932796428 Available: New and Used     A collection  of the first few Hack/Slash stories put out by Devil’s Due. Hack and Slash follow the adventures of Cassie Hack the daughter of a Slasher (think Michael Meyer) who has dedicated her life to track down […]

Book Review: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Delacorte, 2019 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984831927 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) House of Salt and Sorrows is the strangest version of the fairytale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” I have come across to date. The Duke of Salten had twelve daughters. His wife died in childbirth with […]

Book Review: Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** HarperTeen, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0062894229 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook  ( Bookshop.org  | Amazon.com ) Shady Grove grew up in a haunted house, and her father owned a violin that could raise ghosts, but it disappeared when he died in a car accident when she was twelve. Like him, Shady is a […]

Graphic Novel Review: Road of Bones by Rich Douek, art by Alex Cormack

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IDW, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684055982 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology  ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) It’s 1953. Roman Ivanovich Morozov is a prisoner in the Siberian gulag of Kolyma for slandering Stalin, given 25 years of hard labor as punishment. He and his fellow prisoners are forced to work in harsh conditions. If the frozen […]

Graphic Novel Review: Spectre Deep 6 by Jennifer Brody and Jules Rivera

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Spectre Deep 6 by Jennifer Brody and Jules Rivera Turner, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781684424139 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Spectre Deep 6 tells the story of a diverse team of black ops called “Spectres”, an elite squad of soldiers who died in the line of duty and were reanimated by military scientists […]

Essential Werewolf Book Review: Lost Prince by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

**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 […]