Note: I received an ARC sample from the publisher at ALA Annual 2019. I also received a digital review copy from the publisher. ( )

I really wished this was a finished galley. I was really into the story and the art, but on page 58 the words disappeared and we only had the art. The art is amazing and so is the colorist, but there is too much going on to figure out from the pictures alone. Around page 74 we loose the color and only have the black and white frames. This is okay, and I still like the artwork, but as mentioned before, you can not follow the storyline. The story line as I followed is a Scare city full of monsters who have created their own polite society is breaking down as people are killed with a strange light. Our main character is a zombie mom who is kind of funny. She wants to figure out what is happening and save her community. Her vampire husband has to go back to scaring when the bakery profits slow down because of the strife. I really do look forward to seeing the final version of this graphic novel. ( )

This is actually really witty. Monsters that are "evil" but only really in relation to each other (one mentions an unhappy possibility of "going topside," presumably to interact with humans, if reluctantly), overlaid with racial dynamics and tension, other social issues, etc. Went ahead and ordered for the teens. No real violence; a vampire is killed, but just turns to dust, and zombies are pulled apart but are apparently just fine. ( )