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Today I bring you my review of Delicious Monsters. This review was originally posted on YA Books Central so be sure to check it out there.
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Delicious Monsters
Liselle Sambury
3.5 out of 5 stars
Summary
Taken from Goodreads
Daisy sees dead people—something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto. She usually manages to deal with her unwanted ability, but she’s completely unprepared to be dumped by her boyfriend. So when her mother inherits a secluded mansion in northern Ontario where she spent her childhood summers, Daisy jumps at the chance to escape. But the house is nothing like Daisy expects, and she begins to realize that her experience with the supernatural might be no match for her mother’s secrets, nor what lurks within these walls…
A decade later, Brittney is desperate to get out from under the thumb of her abusive mother, a bestselling author who claims her stay at “Miracle Mansion” allowed her to see the error of her ways. But Brittney knows that’s nothing but a sham. She decides the new season of her popular Haunted web series will uncover what happened to a young Black girl in the mansion ten years prior and finally expose her mother’s lies. But as she gets more wrapped up in the investigation, she’ll have to decide: if she can only bring one story to light, which one matters most—Daisy’s or her own?
As Brittney investigates the mansion in the present, Daisy’s story runs parallel in the past, both timelines propelling the girls to face the most dangerous monsters of all: those that hide in plain sight.
Feedback
There was a lot of good in this book and a lot that I liked. Mostly, the story. It was consuming and I wanted to know what was happening. From the beginning, I immediately connected with Daisy. I wanted to know her story and her gift. Her curiosity of the mansion made me curious as well. Daisy was always helping her mom and she thought this was her way out. But as soon as Daisy stepped in the house, weird things happen. She sees so many ghosts and the house is supposed to be feeding on them but they aren’t. Then after the Bed and Breakfast opens someone dies and weird things keep happening. As the story continues, secrets are exposed and I really liked how everything unfolded.
Daisy and Grace definitely were not the best pair. Daisy was so hard on herself and her depression was obvious. She was tired and just wanted to move on but she kept herself back. Her relationship with her mom, Grace, didn’t help. I really liked how their relationship builds though but especially how Daisy comes into her own.
And this book would have been easily a good book for me if it wasn’t for Brittney’s chapters. I don’t know what it is but every time her selected chapters happened, I was annoyed. I hated everything about her chapters. They were sparse to begin with and honestly this story would have been so much better if it was told from Daisy’s point of view only. And it could have been easily done. I felt like Brittney’s chapters just ruined so much of the book.
Final Thoughts
Overall, Delicious Monster by Liselle Sambury was a pretty good book. I really enjoyed the story and how it unfolded. I thought it was really well done and unfolded in such a great way. It was unique and had so much packed into it. The trauma and paranormal aspects were presented in a fantastic way. My biggest issue with this book was all of Brittney’s chapters. I wish I skipped through them all, or that they just didn’t exist. I think this book would have been so much stronger if it was just Daisy’s story. However, if you can get over a couple of random chapters – I would recommend this book.
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