Here are 2 books that Mosquito fans have personally recommended if you like
Mosquito.
Book DNA is a community of 13,000+ authors and super readers sharing their favorite books with the world.
A Most-Anticipated Book of 2024: LitHub, Polygon, Apple, Goodreads
"Wiswell raises the bar on the outcast as protagonist . . . the ultimate monster slayer story, if the monster is just a misunderstood creature searching for love." - Kristi Chadwick, Library Journal (starred review)
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell
Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love.
Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Red as Blood is a collection of fairy tale retellings by the late Tanith Lee. The stories are set in time periods ranging from the distant past to the future. In the title story, Lee retells Snow White, making the princess the villain and the stepmother the heroine. This story, nominated for the Nebula Award in 1979, was my favorite but all the stories take familiar fairy tales and give them thought-provoking and clever twists.
What if Snow White were the real villain and the "wicked queen" just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening Sleeping Beauty would be the mistake of a lifetime - of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities? Only Tanith Lee - "Goddess-Empress of the Hot Read" (Village Voice) - could retell the world-famous tales of the Brothers Grimm (and others) as they might have been told by the Sisters Grimmer! This special edition, conjured together for the 30th Anniversary of the original edition, adds a new Grimmer fairy tale…
