**Reposted from the ML Vault.** Dark Horse Books, 2005 ISBN: 1593071078 Available: New and Used Cal McDonald thought he would get a chance to recover from a tussle with an angry mummy- instead, a possessed teen and a couple of demons stop by for a visit. Cal and Mo’lock then have to go and […]
Graphic Novel Review: Punderworld v1 by Linda Sejic
January 8, 2022Punderworld started as an art project by artist Linda Sejic, then became a Webtoon, now it’s out as a collected graphic novel. It’s a new take on the Hades and Persephone tale, framing it not as as a forced romance, but as a less toxic Romeo and Juliet tale. Anyone on social media has likely […]
Book Review: Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee
January 6, 2022**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 […]
**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
October 29, 2021**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
October 26, 2021**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 […]
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 […]
**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 […]
**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
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 […]