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Monstrous by Jessica Lewis

8 reviews

fanni_ambr_'s review against another edition

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dark sad medium-paced

4.0

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ezwolf's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This was fine. It didn’t feel really like horror? It also got very repetitive towards the end and I guessed one of the plot twists almost immediately. 

But it was interesting to have a protagonist with an injured leg through the whole book. And I did enjoy the relationship between Latavia and the snake. 
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barnesbookshelf's review

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dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

I am here for this queer, feminist revenge story. Honestly, every time Latvania took someone horrible down, I cheered. There were things in the book that were pretty obvious with foreshadowing, but other things took me completely by surprise. This novel has similar vibes to Netflix's Damsel, but I like how Lewis handled the big scaly monster in this story better. 
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ghostlyprince's review

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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vigil's review

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

the dialogue was unfortunately twitter poison, flipping between therapy speak and ironic quips, and the plot couldn’t help but undermine itself at every given opportunity. the ending reads as half finished, the initial story ended up being completely irrelevant to what actually went down, and our purpose for the entire story was discarded, the book only accomplished maybe a quarter of what it initially intended to do and all of it proved to be rather useless in the long run with no bearing on the actual narrative. 
the emotional thread was all over the place, the romance proved to be quickly tiring, and at the end our main goal is implied to be accomplished offscreen after the book ends. except it wasn’t really our main goal because the original goal was made forcibly irrelevant by the narrative. at the end of the book i could only wonder what the was the fucking point? why write 400 pages of a nothingburger plot with a shit ending? why do i still think YA is a salvageable genre? what happened to the plot of the movie!

also are we still doing villain exposition monologues. even if it is YA, evil grinning cartoon villain monologuing his whole plot to the protagonist is very played out. 

it’s only getting two stars for the snake. 
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karcitis's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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4.0

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debussy's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Difficult to rate this one. It’s very gripping, and the plot kept me engaged, but I kept wanting more Bad Witch Burning and less giant snake. The world felt sketchy and the ending wasn’t super satisfying. I kept getting pulled out of the story because it felt so ridiculous at times—like it would be perfect for younger YA, but also I don’t think that’s the right audience for this book, which left me feeling odd about it throughout. 

Still looking forward to more of this author’s work.
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