(4) YA Illustrated by Jim Di Bartolo. Prose alternates with long stretches of illustrated pages in this historical fantasy set in Maine centering on five teens at a resort boardinghouse. Witches, demons, and the undead vie for attention with family curses and budding romances. The vibrant but uneven illustrations at first seem extraneous to the story, but persistent readers will discover they're all part of the puzzle.

Reviewer: April Mazza

(3) YA Faeries of Dreamdark series. Illustrated by Jim Di Bartolo. Whisper Silksinger is the last surviving member of a clan dedicated to guarding one of the sleeping Djinn, creators of the world. Magpie and Hirik, aspiring champions of the Djinn, will protect Whisper from the army of pursuing devils--if they can find her. Through Taylor's powerful storytelling, richly imagined world, and earnestly developed characters, old-fashioned winged fairies become fiercely new.

Reviewer: Amy Bennett-Zendzian

(2) YA Illustrated by Jim Di Bartolo. Kisses link these three fairy-tale-cum-horror stories, all crafted with unusual imaginative force. Female "ripeness" for seduction is a prominent theme; sexuality is a dark, dangerous urge, taking girls to the edges of terror. The shapely young women of Di Bartolo's illustrations display comics' conventions of feminine beauty, set in a realm of a sinister, shadowy atmosphere all red and gray.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010