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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ahhh I had read about 10% of this book when I started it in January and ended up reading the rest in the last 5 days. I can't believe I had waited that long to dive back into this book! TwT It was THAT good. Eliza and Her Monsters was so REAL and believable- the characters, emotions, dialogue, everything. I loved the idea that she is a popular webcomic artist, she has a huge online following, and that people wrote fanfiction for Monstrous Sea. I felt like I was reading something that could actually happen, yet it was still juicy and fresh and new. This book deals with anxiety, social pressure, and finding oneself. I loved the interactions between Eliza and her online friends and especially Eliza and Wallace! Can't wait to read more books by Zappia!
Usually I'm not in the unpopular opinion side, but this book changed that.
Mostly I didn't like Eliza. She was so apathetic and had such a general bad mood throughout all the book! It was really annoying and frustrating. And I don't think that it was because of her anxiety, she just didn't want help. She complained that her parents didn't care and didn't understand about her comic, but everytime they asked her about it, she would yell at them.
Now, what I did like was the geek representation: fanart, fanfiction, cosplay, fandom craziness! Specially the online friends parts! I have really good online friends and it's so hard to explain that you CAN be friends with someone this way!
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I'll rate this book later, when it's not 5 in the morning
Mostly I didn't like Eliza. She was so apathetic and had such a general bad mood throughout all the book! It was really annoying and frustrating. And I don't think that it was because of her anxiety, she just didn't want help. She complained that her parents didn't care and didn't understand about her comic, but everytime they asked her about it, she would yell at them.
Broken people don’t hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.
Now, what I did like was the geek representation: fanart, fanfiction, cosplay, fandom craziness! Specially the online friends parts! I have really good online friends and it's so hard to explain that you CAN be friends with someone this way!
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I'll rate this book later, when it's not 5 in the morning
OMG I loved this. Cheers to all things geeky, comic books, internet and fandoms!
This book completely took over my emotions. I was able to relate Eliza in more ways than one and just seeing her accept herself for who she is was everything to me. I would write more but I'm currently in the shower and the fear that one false move could send my phone swimming isn't a comforting thought😓
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was fine, but not for me.
I liked the idea of this book, but there were some things that happened that I didn’t really like.
I liked Wallace but I didn’t think that he was developed enough. I liked Max and Emmy, but they weren’t shown enough. I liked Eliza when she was with her friends, but I really disliked her around her family. She kind of ignores her brothers and she’s hostile towards her parents, and to me at least, it seemed completely unjustified. She does the stereotypical thing of her parents ‘not getting her’, and that would have been fine, if her parents hadn’t tried to get close to her. Their interests didn’t really overlap, but how were her parents supposed to get along with her when she never tried to talk to them? They tried to include her in family time as they wanted to spend time with their daughter, and instead she was rude and just kept repeating that they didn’t understand her. Eliza got particularly angry when they mentioned Eliza trying to live outside of the internet. Once again, she never tried to explain to them what the internet meant to her.
I liked the idea of the webcomic, and the drawings that are included in this book, especially the mecha. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention, but I didn’t understand what the ending was, and the plot wasn’t shown. It felt like the whole webcomic was that two people were invincible and only they could kill each other.
I didn’t like how this book wrapped up. Eliza’s online identity is found out (which is something that I really don’t like when it’s the conflict of the book), and then the time passes by really quickly, which she spends in bed, and slowly starts to go on walks with her dog and going to school again.
This book was fine, but some of the things that happened just weren’t for me.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
FLEW THROUGH THIS. This was so good omg. I didn't realize that this would include mental illnesses but wow it was written so well. Just read it just dive in.
This book is darker than I thought, it covers topics ranging from anxiety to having suicidal thoughts. It took some time for me to get into the story but otherwise, it is a great read. In some ways, I relate to Eliza, as a person struggling with social anxiety, the anxiety that gets to you when you have to talk to strangers, to make a phone call, to text to acquaintances. It did illustrate the anxiety better than I could have worded it myself.