Man. How greatly disappointed I am. What exactly happened between Magos' emotional, poetically written POV and everyone else's? I felt the exploration of kink and random backstory, that had little to do with the grieving mother and her dead son, was so out of place. The first half and the second half of the book felt like two completely different novels. I tried to be very open-minded about it all as I understood using horror as a vehicle for grief, and vice versa; and that I LOVED the first half of the book and was underlining half the page enamored, but after we enter the mind of Lena I found my enjoyment depleting QUICKLY.

Being within the mind of a grieving mother willing to do anything to keep a piece of her son was making a lot of sense. I expected the rest of the POVs to be about the various surrounding characters dealing with Magos' grief but also how they're dealing with the loss of her and Joseph's son, while also finding out about Monstrillo; thus exploring a monster-horror book riddled with literary elements. But no. 
I didn't necessarily like the huge time jump in the middle of the book without us being there with the characters to see their development. It's like Monstrillo/lung "died", they went to look for him, and then he's a grow adult having kinky sex with random men trying to starve his desire to eat while his father prepares to marry a man named Peter. Okay? Like??? It just all happened so fast and I wasn't prepared for it. I don't think the book does a good job at preparing you for it either.

Monstrillo is a strange book and that's both good and bad. It starts off pleasantly strange. Then gets oddly bizarre and out-of-reach of its original plot, I think. But I still enjoyed it, I think? The writing is beautiful. I just wish it was as strong for everyone else's POV as it was for Magos. Or that it deepened it's exploration of grief and heavy sadness somehow.