Lucky Devil Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn, art by Fran Galán, lettering by El Torres Dark Horse Comics, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781506721996 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, Comixology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Stanley has terrible luck. His three-year relationship is tainted by an affair his girlfriend is having. He’s a gofer for a corporate organization where his higher-ups constantly demean him. […]
T.V. Review: Mayfair Witches- Episode 5- The Thrall
February 15, 2023**Spoilers ahead for both the books and the show.** Episode four left off with Carlotta revealing her true self by attempting to kill both Rowan and herself by lighting the first street house on fire, with Ciprien and Rowan being trapped in the house, and Ciprien stepping between Carlotta’s knife and Rowan. Episode five…well, it’s […]
Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Jeff Edwards Levine Querido, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781646141791 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers makes her YA debut with Man Made Monsters with this 18-story anthology that traces one Cherokee family across time. She starts in the 1830s with the tribe forced off […]
T.V. Review: Mayfair Witches- Episode 4- Curiouser and Curiouser
February 7, 2023Spoilers! This episode opens with yet another flashback to Suzanne. This time we see the preacher of the time chiding Suzanne for mourning her mother’s death, then moments later see a tv-traditional witches circle of women dancing around an effigy and bonfire where Suzanne is freely allowed to scream and cry and mourn her loss. […]
BOOK REVIEW: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US BY ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE
February 2, 2023**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. Peachtree Teen, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1682633243 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Hell Followed with Us is an incredible and original book, but it is not an easy read. It is a scream of rage. Make sure to read the author’s […]
T.V. Review: Mayfair Witches Episode 3 – Second Line
January 31, 2023As always, there will be spoilers. Second Line was a much easier watch after the emotional yank of the last scene of episode 2 where Deidre is killed. I’m feeling fairly neutral about the flashbacks to Scotland and Suzanne. In the books Suzanne is portrayed as very childlike, someone who had a gift and enjoyed […]
BOOK REVIEW: HOUSE OF HOLLOW BY KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND
January 26, 2023**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk** House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0593110348 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) House of Hollow was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Young Adult Fiction this year. Ten years ago, Grey, […]
T.V. Review: Mayfair Witches Episode 2 The Dark Place
January 24, 2023Episode Two starts with a flash back to the first Mayfair witch, Suzanne, referred to in the books as a “naïve Scottish cunning woman” and portrayed similarly here. Suzanne in the books is barely touched on, and even the Talamasca’s own records begin after she’d been burnt at the stake as a witch. She was […]
BOOKLIST: GREAT YA HORROR OF 2022
January 21, 2023Wow, it’s been a great year for YA horror! I feel like we are seeing much more diversity than in the past, which is great, and it isn’t just surface: it’s essential to many of these stories. I read more than I got reviewed for Monster Librarian, and there were definitely other great reads (Angel […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Last Huntress (Mirror Realm Series Book 1) by Lenore Borja Spark Press, Nov. 2022 ISBN-13: 978-1684631735 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Bookshop.org | Amazon.com The Last Huntress is a young adult fantasy/adventure with romantic underpinnings, clearly targeted towards junior high and high school girls. That doesn’t mean adults can’t read and […]