Dreams can be deadly, even when your fated mate is a dark fae prince the monsters fear.Rule #1 Don’t talk to your hallucinations.Rule #2 Don’t let anyone know your fears.Rule #3 Don’t let anyone get too close.I’m El Adams, Eleanor if you want to get fancy. Our family moves around a lot. Every first day of a new school, my sister Jax ends up being hit on by a creep, and I go to detention for … creep, and I go to detention for rescuing her. Hitting on boys for me is beating the crap out of them, but this town is different.I can’t stand people touching me, ever since I was abducted I don’t remember when I was eleven, but this time, for the first time, I touched a guy and didn’t want to die. It’s love at first touch. He’s bigger than anyone, stronger, graceful, and he can handle my hallucinations and weirdness.Until I realize that they aren’t hallucinations and my nightmares are coming for me.
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Fantastic story! Original and unexpectedly funny.
I loved this story. Methuselah “Met” Barrow is a Dark Fae Prince from Hell who has lived as a human since he was two years old. He lives in the skin of Met Barrow who is dead, his Fae body is blue and he removes the human skin every so often to keep balance in the area and to feel the air against his real skin.
Ellie Adams is like nobody he has ever seen before. She is like a bright shining light. She arrived at school on her first day wearing a unicorn horn on her head. She wears different clothes than all the other girls like she couldn’t care less what anyone thinks about her, she wears glitter makeup and is always smiling and happy. She blurts out that she loves him after knowing him for just a few days.
The story is told from the POV of both El and Met. They each have their own issues but they are drawn to each other. The fact that she is human while he and quite a few other people around them are Supernatural make for some pretty funny situations. Though the problems each of them face are very real.
Met and quite a few of the dark Fae that live in Hell are under the rule of his aunt the Queen. She is an evil queen and though he is dark and prone to darkness, he has taken on the mantle of balance and he dislikes causing death unless he has to in order to keep balance between good and evil. So he hates going to Hell to see the Queen because she may ask him to do things he doesn’t like or he will be seen as weak.
Allie has horrible nightmares every night because she was kidnapped by a psychopath when she was eleven years old and was with him for fifteen days before she escaped or was found. She doesn’t remember any of it, but has horrible dreams where some demon named Mr. Night and his shadows torment her. Since she returned home she hates being touched, even by her family. Only small children don’t make her skin crawl. So she tries to avoid touch as much as possible.
Though for some reason, when Met touches her on the first day of school, she doesn’t feel the “ick” that she gets from everyone else. So she is enamored with him right away and wants to know more. She sits with him at lunch every day and becomes friends with him. The story going forward is funny, sweet, heartwarming, tragic, suspenseful, and crazy at times. But I really liked it. I give it a 4.5 (rounded up to a 5).
Thanks to Booksprout for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Intriguing book about dealing with a lot of issues. The monster created. It was a little dark at times but by the end cleared up just not fully. Hoping for a second book!
mesmerizingly weird. A good weird, but…weird.
It started out fun because Julianne Whicker writes fun, zany, spooky books. This one took a much weirder turn much quicker, however. El struggles with nightmares and being different. All of which was fine until we got to the implied sexual torture that occurred in the dreams. The monsters, the angsty and confusing love triangles, and the torturous nightmares just were a little too intense for what I was looking for in a young adult book. I have loved many of this author’s books, especially the first three books of the Water Girl series. After this one though, I think I’m going to need a break.
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What a different story. It made me happy, sad, mad and laugh at different parts of the story. I loved the concept of the story and was not disappointed. I really liked that it was not a straight forward story but really twisted and bent. I liked that I could not really guess what was going to happen next all the time but got a surprise instead. Just a fun read that had great characters that was easy to love and hate. It had its dark parts but they made the story and characters who they were.
I had fun reading this book. It has nice twist and turns. It’s a book about love, a book about a true Adams family. About a girl wearing a unicorn on her head going to school. A Fun girl, light, lovable, but also a girl with a problem of touching. Everybody she touches feels icky. A girl just falling in love with a dark prince, despite her real scary dreams. A book about another girl wrestling with her birthright of being a succubus. About a vampire and a black prince, all in the same school. It all ads up to a nice read, a good twist in the plot too. I had a bit of a hard time with Mister Night. Just a bit to creepy. This made the book very dark towards the end. Just go read for yourselves. It will be a good read!
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Overall 2.75 stars
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I am very conflicted about this book and honestly, I don’t know how to review this book. Monster is the first book I have read my Juliann Whicker so I’m not used to her writing style and maybe that threw things off for me. I am normally I am a happy reader, meaning that when I read something, I’m gonna find something I like about it and I will laugh and make comments, it’s just who I am. The story is told from dual povs, Ellie and Met, while Met is giving a full view of the supernatural, El’s is one of those povs that you can’t trust because she has issues. While I was confused in the beginning I did grow to like the characters and I eventually got into the story.
Pros:
The story has a whole bunch of weird and I love weird, the fact that Ellie’s family wasn’t in any way traditional was kinda perfect.
Ellie is unique and true to herself, she dances to her own tune and doesn’t let people change her. Also while she may be the happiest person ever she can also throw down with the best of them.
Met is just so precious and I adore him so much. He’s nice and he cares for El so much and treats her like she is the most precious thing he has, and she might very well be. I loved the two together, they worked and complimented each other in such a way that you couldn’t deny that they were made for each other.
Cons:
In the beginning, the story was confusing and it took me a minute to get into it.
Towards the end, the story got really dark out of nowhere and things were jumbled up and I couldn’t quite follow what was going on.
If this is the only book in the series then I didn’t care for the ending at all, I was unfulfilled, I feel that a lot of questions were left unanswered and a lot of things weren’t revealed or addressed.
I’m a reading addict, so sometimes I just can’t help myself. Because of the characters, I so badly want to give Monster a higher rating than I am but some things I can’t let slide. While I am a little confused by Monster and it had its problems, I will admit that if this turns out to be a series (I have no idea if this is a first in a series or a standalone) I would probably get the next book (as an ebook, if the price is right) just so I can know what happens.