The Carnival Wars

GloomCookie #18-23

by Serena Valentino, Harley Sparx (Illustrator)

GloomCookie features an ensemble cast of cursed beauties, living wax statues, bad goth poets, malevolent gargoyles, disturbed werewolves, and a boy struggling to come to terms with his enormous power. The Carnival Macabre goes to war against Marguerite and her evil shape shifting acolytes for their horrific misdeeds against Sebastian and his friends.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Gothic, Horror

220 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2005

About the author

Serena Valentino is best known for weaving tales that combine mythos and guile with her work on the comic book series GloomCookie and Nightmares & Fairy Tales, and her best selling Disney Villain Novels which have earned her critical acclaim for her unique style of storytelling, bringing her readers into exquisitely frightening worlds filled with terror, beauty and extraordinary female protagonists.

Her Disney Villain novel series would be best enjoyed if read in this order: Fairest of All: The Story of the Wicked Queen, The Beast Within: The Story of Belle’s Prince, Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch, Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy. Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch and The Odd Sisters: A Villains Book to be released in Summer 2019. Book 7 will be out Summer 2020, Book 8 summer of 2021, and Book 9 Summer of 2022.

Serena lives in New Orleans with her dog Gozer, and a very tiny kitty named Momma.



Contact: Serena@serenavalentino.com

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Introducing Koon Raven, the tryhard goth we actually know from our own lives! Meanwhile, life for the rest of our merry crew just gets weirder and weirder.

[#ReadAllTheBooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

As usual, a great storyline was told in this book, but unfortunately it is told in bits & pieces instead of one nice steady storyline. There are things that are forshadowed, but when it does happen it lacks the punch that a bit more storytelling would have given it.

[Lorra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story, though a bit disjointed and hard to follow some of the plot with all the transformations and similar looking characters and once in a while I wasn't sure what was going on - however, it was still beautiful, with the best art of the series.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars