Monstrous Beauty
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0065ROTM2
Publish date: September 4th 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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...
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