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Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

130 reviews

dakota2093's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Super weird but I loved it. Definitely the kind of horror that you think about a lot. I have seen people compare it to Frankenstein but I would say it is similar but it is a much more intimate type of story and is much more sympathetic to the monster - in Frankenstein, the monster is not inherently evil but becomes that way due to rejection whereas Monstrilio is unapolegetically non-human and his family struggle but ultimatley due try to accept and understand him. 

Very interesting exploration of grief, family, life and death. but I will say I found most of the human characters very annoying, especially Magos, Monstrilio's mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Death of parent

Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Medical content

rachelhreads's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Eerie, sad, and beautifully written. I’ll be thinking about this for a while. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cannibalism

kai_flynn's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Really loved the originality and honesty! It's very vulnerable and raw and doesn't shy away from the ugliness that emotion can be.
I think I have a lot more feelings, but they're not ready to be written yet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence

kelsmc's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I was quite torn with this one. Overall, I enjoyed it as a dark, weird story although I did find the pace a bit slow. But in line with other reviews, I agree that it could have been so much more especially in terms of how it ended. On the one hand, I think that if you're looking for an exploration of grief, especially child loss, the ending may be an appropriate closure and not necessarily be disappointing. On the other hand, if like myself, you were anticipating a more dark, unhinged, disturbing type of horror story based on the brief synoposis on the back cover, you might be a bit disappointed with the ending and overall progression. 

I also think that it may have been more effective for the author to switch perspectives of characters throughout the book in shorter increments of time, instead of only seeing the perspectives of Magos, Lena, Joseph, and M once in four main sections over extended periods. I think that this would have been a way to add more to the story. It could have been especially interesting to have seen more of Monstrilio's perspective when he was young and wild before having to evolve and become more contained/human-like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Cannibalism

Moderate: Sexual content

mrrou's review

4.75

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma

tusurikusun's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Sexual content

emilymai's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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so happy i chose this as my first read of the year. absolutely gorgeously written yet unpretentious. never thought a character that

eats people

would have my heart as much as monstrilio, but there you go.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts

lavishrebellion's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

adriexne's review

4.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

binevolentbookworm's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Sexual content