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A review by squids_can_read
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Daisy can see ghosts. She's always been able to but after her move something is not right with the house. Something only she can fix.
This book was pretty scatter all over the place so I'll start with Daisy's timeline. As a character, I thought that Daisy and her mother were extremely interesting. Both grew up with abusive mothers, in different ways, and struggled with who they wanted to become. I thought that the relationship that was developed between them was super interesting and compelling. I also really liked how Daisy interacted with people other than her mother.
However, I though certain things dragged a bit. It talks almost two or three hundred pages for Daisy to find out what happened to her Mother in the house and we still do not get everything at that point. This book is about 480 pages as an ebook on a kindle. I just thought that it was an incredibly long time for information to be dragged out especially when not much else was happening in the story. Another thing that was dragged out was what Daisy's study sessions with her mom were, which took almost the same amount of time to be reveled.
Onto Brittany's timeline. I thought that this timeline didn't even need to be included. I think that the only reason that it was was in order to give us an ending about what happened from an outside perspective. I didn't think that this timeline added any depth to the story and I honestly would have rather spent more time with Daisy. There were also much less about Brittany then there was Daisy so it just felt like it was thrown in without thought.
The setting and the world building were pretty good. I really felt like I could see where this story was talking place.
Overall, I think that this story could have cut out Brittany's timeline altogether and been about two hundred pages shorter and still gotten the point across perfectly.
This book was pretty scatter all over the place so I'll start with Daisy's timeline. As a character, I thought that Daisy and her mother were extremely interesting. Both grew up with abusive mothers, in different ways, and struggled with who they wanted to become. I thought that the relationship that was developed between them was super interesting and compelling. I also really liked how Daisy interacted with people other than her mother.
However, I though certain things dragged a bit. It talks almost two or three hundred pages for Daisy to find out what happened to her Mother in the house and we still do not get everything at that point. This book is about 480 pages as an ebook on a kindle. I just thought that it was an incredibly long time for information to be dragged out especially when not much else was happening in the story. Another thing that was dragged out was what Daisy's study sessions with her mom were, which took almost the same amount of time to be reveled.
Onto Brittany's timeline. I thought that this timeline didn't even need to be included. I think that the only reason that it was was in order to give us an ending about what happened from an outside perspective. I didn't think that this timeline added any depth to the story and I honestly would have rather spent more time with Daisy. There were also much less about Brittany then there was Daisy so it just felt like it was thrown in without thought.
The setting and the world building were pretty good. I really felt like I could see where this story was talking place.
Overall, I think that this story could have cut out Brittany's timeline altogether and been about two hundred pages shorter and still gotten the point across perfectly.