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Monsters by Emerald Fennell
3.5
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

 Overall Thoughts:
⁕ This novel is serving Wes Anderson, Lemony Snicket, and Agatha Christy all at once. It's quirky, depressingly self-aware, and full of who-dun-it mysteriousness.

⁕ Fennell devises some very clever red herrings -- I thought on multiple occasions that I had the mystery solved when I, in fact, did not. This was initially exciting, but the actual reveal/ending was so out of the box that I almost wished my original theories were correct.

⁕ The main character (and her sidekick friend) are absolutely nasty, and there is no shortage of dead people and animals. I'm surprised this is labeled on most major platforms as a YA book.  While the language and structure of the book is simple and accessible to younger ages, the content is super dark. 

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