Review: Club Monstrosity was a fun and quick read that centered around some of the famous "monsters" of movie history.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales.Quick & Dirty: It's hard enough to get through every day in New York as a monster straight out of the old horror movie, but its even harder to get through every day when there's some lunatic trying to kill you and your friends.Opening Sentence: The basement of the Holy Heart Church on East 125th St in New York City smelled like a strange combination of dust, hundreds of years of age, and the leftovers of charity dinners cooked in the kitchen hovering just above it.The Review:Club Monstrosity was a fun and quick read that centered around some of the famous "monsters" of movie history like the wolfman, swamp thing and, of course, Dracula. Natalie Gray is the main character. She is one of Frankenstein's monsters and like the others she is trying to fit into the world by layering make-up to hide her scars and always keeping people at a distance so that they wouldn't notice anything odd about her like the fact that her body is made up of a bunch of different parts of different people's bodies. She seems to want to be human more than any of the rest of the monsters but struggles more than the beautiful Kai, an undead mummy from ancient Egypt or the handsomely rugged werewolf, Alec.The relationship that forms between these three is easy to spot right from the beginning. Natalie acknowledges that while Kai is usually a bit high strung and overly confident, Natalie has a begrudging respect for how she handles the disappearance of another member of their group who also happens to be their leader, the Blob or Bob. Alec, is a pretty basic pretty boy character. He gets a lot of girls and that fuels his ego which in turn makes him obnoxious but deep down he's actually sweet and intellegent. That is sort of the trend of the book. Nothing is super complicated. Yes, this group of misfits is searching for someone who is methodically killing off members and yes they are monsters trying to pass as humans. However, the characters aren't super deep. Natalie is the nerdy outsider, Alec is the hot guy, Kai is the hot girl, Linda is the crazy one, Dracula is the old fashioned guy, Jekyell is quiet, Hyde is the barely restrained rebel. The entire story is very straight forward and simple but very enjoyable as well.FTC Advisory: Pocket Star/Simon & Schuster provided me with a copy of Club Monstrosity. No goody bags, sponsorships, "material connections," or bribes were exchanged for my review.