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Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
3.75
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I loved the complexity of all the characters and how much the story forced you to not take information/things at a black & white level. 
I did not expect Ivy to end up kinda being the main character in this story by the end, with the way it was written i assumed Daisy had been the one found in the house
I am glad Daisy and her mother were able to move past both of their trauma from childhood and reform their relationship for the better. 
I would have loved some more world building in terms of the house and its abilities as it does seem to be somewhat sentient and eats the dead and can ‘snack’? on the living but were told it isn’t as independent as it seemed but it was? for a little bit. 
Not all of it was Ivy controlling it but we had near no explanation how it could do what it did.
The true villain being Peter was not very surprising as I suspected he did something from the start but it was surprising how one man could do so much harm evenafter his passing..
The descriptions of the maggots were truly disgusting! I actually gagged at one point. 
This was another plot hole that was left unanswered, why was the maggots grown in the goat’s stomach the only thing that worked against the house? And how did the house tell Grace this?
This was a hard to rate as there was a good ending and things tied up but still so many plot holes surrounding the house, which is what the plot is based on.