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- Freida is not a good writer. She can make a book wildly entertaining, however.
- This lady handholds her audience entirely too much. There's very little to the imagination with her prose. She quite literally spells everything out for you.
- Sydney was annoying as hell. Once again due to Freida's prose, but, how many times did she have to repeat herself over and over. Girl, we get it, you're single. You don't like it. Men don't like this. Men don't like that. Please shut up. 😭
- The backstory chapters were significantly better than the modern day ones. I wish this was written in Tom's POV only. Maybe Tom and... IYKYK (No spoilers!)
- This was so Amma Crellin core. Absolutely a book for people who love Sharp Objects but prefer shittier writing!
Not a perfect book but I had fun. Wasn't too fond of the inclusion of Tanner and his storyline but the atmosphere of this novel had me gripped. Felt like it was made just for me.. A little fun page turner with an aesthetic that mirrors my blog. Can't be too mad at a simple read. I could nit-pick this apart but I'll leave it be!
... 😭 There are so many things I want to nit-pick. I'll just say this: romance is not my preferred genre, especially this type of romance. What kept me going was the crime/mystery elements because I heavily enjoy crime/thriller/mystery/horror novels. That said, if this book was just that without the insta-lust and unrealistic sexual tension and sex scenes this would be half decent!
First of all, Marius ruined this entire book for me. I strongly believe without Hugo's long ass tangents about semi-irrelevant topics this would be a 5 star book for me. I was sobbing over Fantine, especially when I re-listened to "I Dreamed a Dream" with the newfound knowledge of Fantine's backstory. Any time a book makes me cry it's an automatic 5 stars but... Not this one. Sorry. Not this one.
It's not a great book but I enjoyed it. This is somewhat endearing. It's like watching a mini drama series about college students. I don't necessarily like any of these people but they're also my little shaylas...
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.
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.
Now THAT'S romantasy!
How nostalgic. How whimsical. How cute. What a palette cleanser. Sweet and simple.
How nostalgic. How whimsical. How cute. What a palette cleanser. Sweet and simple.
Not the worst thing I've ever read. I completely understand all the low reviews. I wish this was more introspective and informative about the world of Silicon Valley, but, whatever.
I totally see why everyone compared some of these characters to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, unfortunately. A bigggg chunk of this novel is very boring and our main character isn't interesting enough to chalk this up to a character study. However, I did enjoy the fact that she had a chronic illness. I felt seen :)
I totally see why everyone compared some of these characters to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, unfortunately. A bigggg chunk of this novel is very boring and our main character isn't interesting enough to chalk this up to a character study. However, I did enjoy the fact that she had a chronic illness. I felt seen :)