{"id":4007,"date":"2013-09-03T21:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:29:38","slug":"club-monstrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4007","title":{"rendered":"Club Monstrosity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Club Monstrosity<\/a><\/em> (2013) Jesse Petersen<\/p>\n

\"club-monstrosity\"<\/a>I really wanted to like this book. <\/p>\n

The idea of it is marvelous: the monsters of the past: Dracula, the swamp thing, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster–all these creatures exist, and they are in hiding and in group therapy of a sort, to get past their pasts.<\/p>\n

The main character is Natalie, who was created by Dr. Frankenstein, and who has a terrible fear of mobs with pitchforks. She works in a morgue, where she can pass off any signs of decay as coming from her job, as opposed to her body.<\/p>\n

And the mummy works for a cosmetics factory and has every kind of lotion and moisturizer ever invented to attempt to fight the dessication.<\/p>\n

And the werewolf keeps losing his jobs, for stealing razors.<\/p>\n

The ideas here are marvelous. It’s just the execution I had problems with.<\/p>\n

For example, the point of view frequently jumped from person to person not just within the same chapter, but sometimes within the same paragraph. Essentially, the story needed a strong editor, but didn’t get one, so I kept finding myself annoyed not at the story, but at the story telling.<\/p>\n

So, although this is quite obviously book one with more to come, I’ll pass on the rest of the series.
\nRating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Pocket Star
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