by Laura Di Giovine | Mar 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Horror, Humor
Mary McScary prides herself on being able to scare everyone, but can she frighten her unflappable cousin Harry? Mary McScary is horror master R.L. Stine’s second picture book collaboration with illustrator Marc Brown, and young kids will be delighted. [alert...
by Megan Stevens | Jan 19, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult
Emily Lloyd-Jones’ The Hearts We Sold is a young-adult novel that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, adventure, suspense, and romance. This story follows Dee Moreno, who lives mostly at Brannigan, her high school that is also a boarding school, which she much...
by MJ Barber-Isaac | Oct 23, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Horror, Sponsored
My Brother’s Destroyer by Clayton Lindemuth is not a book for everyone. Probably not for most people, honestly. From the dog fights with explicit wound descriptions to some mildly incestuous behavior to the nigh unreadable hillbilly vernacular of main character Baer...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Aug 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Fantasy, Horror
You wouldn’t think the beach would be a preferred destination for vampires…but what about at night? Vampirina and her family go for a nighttime beach trip with other monster families: mummies, sea monsters, and her werewolf friend. They surf, play volleyball, build...
by Brandon Sanford | May 1, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Horror
In a time of ice and starvation, a demon with the power to take over human bodies hunts the children of a bronze-age tribe. Enough, they finally said, and called a truce with their neighboring tribes. Trials by combat found the greatest warrior in the four valleys,...
by Stephen Febick | Apr 10, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Horror, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Mohammad Rabie’s Otared is a novel built on hardships and the detachment that it creates. It’s a look at poverty and struggle in Egypt in AD 2025 as citizens seek out existence in Cairo’s war-torn landscape. Otared’s matter of fact tone and simply put depictions of...