471 reviews for:

The Monster

L.J. Shen

3.71 AVERAGE


I’m still like how do I find enough words to say what this book did too me. Everyone who follows me long enough can say L.J catches me with every book she writes. And she definitely did it with this one to.
This book is definitely worth every hour of sleep

“You don’t mean something to me. You mean everything to me."
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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
dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

she broke into the kingpins office (man who holds all of boston) with a bobbypin... i think thats it
ohh sorry also monster,monster, monster... good God stooop!!!
dark emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Three stars purely because it ended better than it started. It needed significant editing and spelling corrections before publishing, which I didn’t bother dinging a star for because that may be fixed later.

But good lord I couldn’t STAND these two. Short and sweet with no spoilers: she’s a naive moron from a billionaire family, he’s a cynical mobster from a poor background (monster, hah, super funny play on words there…). Their families are tied together through multiple layers, none of which make any sense seeing as how she’s filthy rich and he’s the mob.

Some of the plot literally makes no sense. Wanted by the law? Shhh not an issue. Angry vendettas all over the map with minimal proof of anything? Shhh not an issue.

I had it at 4 stars when I started writing this…I guess it really did bother me how not great it was.
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Oh man, I can’t stand a leading character with no backbone, especially when that character is supposedly an ‘equal’ to the other. I was really hoping that Aisling would stop being so freaking pathetic but it never happened. She had no backbone when it came to Sam and none with it came to her mom. It was cringy watching her continuously cling to Sam when he made it clear he wanted nothing to do with her over and over. She’s a millionaire and a doctor, babe do better. Leave his ass in the dust, know your worth. Sam only came around when he saw that she was, finally after a decade, starting to give up. Then she gave in pretty quickly again once he was interested. Blah. Not for me