3 things about this book:1.The audiobook is really really good! And it includes an interview between the author and the narrator! Just great.2. All the characters are super mysterious and I quite enjoyed getting to know them as the story progressed. Even the minor characters.3. The story has two plo...
TW: Rape. It’s a hard to read myth perpetuating depiction (stranger overcome with uncontrollable lust with lots of victim blaming), which permeates the entire story. It’s necessary to the plot as surprise twist, to make other attractions non-icky and show how the victim suffered then sacrificed to g...
For a mermaid novel this is quite a ghost story. When you pick up a YA novel about a love between a human and a mermaid you expect something a bit twee, but this is a brutal story with some real gut wrenching scenes of violence and sacrifice. I hesitate to describe much of the plot because I knew no...
This review can also be found at LostBetweenThePages & Goodreads. "It was a woman--as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped...
Book Review Monstrous Beauty is a dark and twisted concoction of myth, curses, history, and murder. It is a piercing story about a mermaid who longs to love and a young girl who has discarded any hope of it. Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she ab...
A 3.5 because I enjoyed it, but I think there were some things that could've been worked on. The tale was much darker than I originally anticipated, and it's great when a book goes into a whole new direction that the reader anticipates (well, as long as the direction is a good one!) It was like a ...
I’ll be honest—when I first started this book, I was less than thrilled. I was bored and kind of irritated with Hester because she just seemed to be one of those characters—cynical, pessimistic, and generally irritated. Maybe she has a right to be that way, but still—I wasn’t sold on her story. The ...
Review: When it comes to YA books, “mermaid” usually equates to “burn it”. Mentioning mermaids in the description usually sends me running far far away from said book. When Monstrous Beauty was released, I had very little interest in it. However, Wendy at The Midnight Garden highly recommended this ...
This book is hauntingly beautiful and, to a point, I loved it, which is why I'm giving it 4 stars. It should be a 5 star rating and I've considered changing it many times because I did love this book and it is way better than some of the other books I've rated with the same amount of stars, but I di...
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