I liked the concept of this novel but liked the novel itself less than I thought I would. Perhaps it was the style of the novel's narrative which didn't appeal to me and didn't convey the carnage as well as I thought it might. For one thing the novel seemed to delight in pulling as many moral string...
Why I Read It: This was the March selection for Calico Reaction's Theme Park book club! Even before this was selected it had been on my radar; the book club just gave me an excuse to read it sooner rather than later.I first off want to apologize for the mess that this review will probably be. I'm ri...
In a sentence or so: Will Henry and the Monstrumologist he apprentices under have to save their small 1800s town from a pack of monsters with a serious desire for human flesh.Will Henry is an orphan. His parents died in a fire and the doctor who employed his father takes him under his wing. The thin...
Synopsis:An elderly resident of an old people’s home, called William James Henry, dies in his sleep. He claimed he was born in 1876 which would make him a 131-year old man in the moment of his death but nobody believes him. His notebooks are lent to the narrator/the author.That’s how, after a short ...
The Monstromologistpresents itself as the purported diary of William James Henry, former apprentice to “monstrumologist” Dr. Pellinore Warthrop. Will Henry’s story begins on a dark night in 1888, when a grave robber delivers the corpse of one the Anthropophagi, headless, man-eating monsters based on...
I am sure The Monstrumologist is an excellent middle-grade horror novel and one that deserves the Michael L. Printz Honor award, too. More gore and blood and brains (the splattered variety) and monsters and mad, amusingly single-minded and selfish professorism are simply not possible. The etching-st...
Rick Yancey has a lyrical gift of language that, for me, made this book truly a pleasure to read. And I don't think I'll get the phrase "Snap to, Will Henry! Snap to!" out of my head anytime soon. As to the story, it a mix of boyish adventure, tragedy and Gothic horror. Only our monster isn't a vamp...
by Rick YanceyThis book is dark, thrilling, and deeply engrossing. Don’t pick it up unless you’re prepared to deal with a fair amount of blood, guts, and gore, because once you’ve started it will be hard to stop. Told by Will Henry, an orphan whose whole life has been bound up in assisting Pellinore...
This book was gory and a little scary and oddly philosophical. I quite enjoyed it. There were many places that caused my heart to beat rapidly and my breaths to become quick and short. I can't wait to read the next one.
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