★★★★★ The witch raised her wand for one final go. There were SPARKLES and GLITTER... A creepy old witch wants to throw a party - the biggest and bestest and scariest party yet. But that's far too much for one old witch to do. So she brings a few pumpkins to life to help, like: Gnarly,… Continue reading Christopher Pumpkin = Sue Hendra, Paul Linnet, Nick East
Relatively Dead – Sheila Connolly
★ More like Relatively Dreadful. This one was So. Freaking. Boring. Abby Kimball, enthusiastically unemployed, moved with her boyfriend, Brad, to New England for Brad's career. Brad encourages her to explore her new town and get to know people in the area. So, reluctantly...Abby leaves the apartment. She didn't want to be here. But Brad had told her she… Continue reading Relatively Dead – Sheila Connolly
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell, Faith Erin Hicks (illustrator)
★★★★ ...I'm your friend. And friends don't let friends live small lives. Every October, Deja and Josiah work together at the pumpkin patch - stirring the pots at the Succotash Hut. Their Pumpkin Patch is the best one in the entire world and every year, they count down the months until it opens up again. They are… Continue reading Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell, Faith Erin Hicks (illustrator)
Rayne & Delilah’s Midnight Matinee – Jeff Zentner
For a long time I shined my light for someone other than me. But not anymore. Josie and Delia, who are more known by their alter egos Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, host a midnight matinee every Friday night. Josie and Delia do their best to serve up what they know best - bad movies, terrible jokes and plenty of… Continue reading Rayne & Delilah’s Midnight Matinee – Jeff Zentner
The Beloved Dearly – Doug Cooney & Tony DiTerlizzi
★★★ ½ With decisive air, Ernie flipped open his jobs notebook, turned to a blank page, and wrote down the word funerals. Ernie is the idea-man. The trouble-maker. The too-clever-for-his-own-good kid. And lately, all he can think about is: "The bank, the beans, the jimmy, the jive. The moola, the greenbacks, the dead presidents!" Ernie cried.… Continue reading The Beloved Dearly – Doug Cooney & Tony DiTerlizzi
Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
★★★★★ Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. Camille Preaker is back in her hometown but for all the wrong reasons. She just got out of a psych hospital and her next reporting assignment? To cover the murders of two preteens who lived in her town. Problems… Continue reading Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes – Karin Slaughter
★★ The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her. Keeping her.” Julia Carroll sees the news everywhere - young women go missing at a steady rate. And she knows, statistically, it's likely to happen again. As it bothers her - the fact that no one is talking about what's happening to all… Continue reading Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes – Karin Slaughter
My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
★★★★ It’s because she is beautiful, you know. That’s all it is. They don’t really care about the rest of it. She gets a pass at life. Ayoola, the beautiful, younger sister of Korede, calls her up on night for....what's quickly becoming a disturbing trend. It takes a whole lot longer to dispose of a… Continue reading My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
Daughters Unto Devils – Amy Lukavics
★★ ½ I'm starting to believe that hell is everywhere. Amanda Verner, sixteen, lives with her parents and siblings in a remote mountainside cabin. The last winter was absolutely terrible. Amanda's sickly mother was pregnant and began wasting away. Mom gave birth to a blind and deaf child who cries...and cries...and cries... Amanda went stir crazy… Continue reading Daughters Unto Devils – Amy Lukavics
Gunslinger Girl – Lyndsay Ely
★★ Welcome to Cessation, Serendipity Jones. The last place on the continent where you can do whatever the hell you want. Serendipity "Pity" Jones is a seventeen-year-old gunslinger in a futuristic wild west world. Her mother lived on a commune and raised three children with a man she abhorred. Pity's mother did her best in a bad… Continue reading Gunslinger Girl – Lyndsay Ely
