470 reviews for:

The Monster

L.J. Shen

3.71 AVERAGE

skyguysbabygirl's review

1.0

no just no.
this is by far the worst lj book I've read. it legit feels like she didn't even want to write it. t
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laritalar4's review

1.0

12th of July.

I'm in favor of all the negative reviews this book has received.
Please, someone get Aisling some self-respect.
And LJ Shen, pay me for therapy. These traumas will not heal on their own.

By the way, hopefully Sam dies in the future and Aisling gets another man. Not that i like her (at all), but i want them to fuck over Sam's grave.

That's all.





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thatcrazybookbitch's review

5.0

What a journey! Обичах я, мразех я и после я обичах още няколко пъти докато я мразех. Болеше и разгневяваше. Будеше възхищение и респект. И за пореден път ме изпълни с онова благоговение пред съвършенството на несъвършените неща.

Животът е изпълнен със сажди и морално сиви неща. С несправедливости и грозни чувства. А способността да маневрираш в тази моласа те изпълва с почти перверзно задоволство. Шен е перфектен екскурзовод имено в тези амбивалентни ширини от човешкият характер. И за пореден път се справи просто перфектно

4 stars bc i love aisling

Really enjoyed the first half, then it all went sideways.

Look, I love the naive girl growing a backbone but still staying true to herself, but Ash doesn't even do that. She keeps giving him the opportunity time and time again to hurt her and humilliate her and he takes them everytime because he knows she'll always be there.

Ugh, this was a good story however; Sam was extremely difficult for me to like or just be indifferent to, he was an absolute pig!!!
I hated the way he treated Aisling, he was very disrespectful, but I get it, this is an enemy to lovers romance, but still I find no redeeming qualities in Sam and not because of his lifestyle or that he’s a criminal.

I shook my head and yelled at Aisling each time she let him do anything to her, he didn’t deserve a moment of her time.

Anyway, this is a really good story, I just couldn’t find anything about Sam that I liked.

I ❤️ LJ Shen. She brought her perfect a game to The Monster. I've wanted Sam and Aisling's story since the Boston Belle's series began. I wanted every sordid detail of Sam's life and Shen overdelivered. What I wasn't expecting was the detailed long running history between the two and the emotional and psychological darkness of Aisling to rival Sam's own.

Aisling intrigued me as the somewhat sidelined Belle. Friend to Sailor and the girls but seemingly not part of the inner circle, more the younger sister of Hunter (oh how I still love him and his cluelessness) and Cillian. This book gave her all the detail and inner turmoil and sadness. She was so beautifully real and suffering her own emotional traumas. She was so much more then the Sam-struck Belle of the series so far. And she came in to her own as the story progressed. I loved her fierceness making Sam earn her back.

Sam was just as dark and twisty as we've been led to believe. But he has his soft and gooey heart and
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes