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All Hallows Read Suggestion #1

So the time has come, get ready for some book recommendations. Mostly spooky, scary stuff for your Halloween nights! Let's get started!

So, this weekend I finished Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick. Here's the official description we have in our catalog:

"Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant"

I don't really think it does it justice, but it gives you the general gist. Seven different stories that travel back in time and slowly unravel the story. There's a lot of recurring imagery that can be kind of creepy. But not too creepy? It's hard to describe properly. Each story is completely different but connected by a common chord and it was fun to try and puzzle out what the connections were going to be in each one.

Plus, look how awesome the covers are:

Also, we met the author last year at Teen Book Con and he was great.

DFTBA,
Sti

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