A review by bookgirl4ever
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

4.0

Will Henry is the apprenticed orphan to the town's monstrumologist, Dr. Pellinore Warthrop. Dr. Warthrop and his work is looked upon suspiciously by the locals. They don't really know what he does, but they believe it is evil. One night, a gravedigger drops by the with a package containing a dead teenage girl, embraced by a monster. Dr. Warthrop knows just what monster this is, an anthropophagi, a headless humanoid, whose eyes and mouth are on its abdomen, and brain in the groin section. After investigating, Dr. Warthrop learns there is a whole colony of the anthropophagi that lives in the graveyard. Further investigation makes him determined to eradicate the colony. Gruesome descriptions of the monsters' attacks, as well as the attacks of other monsters are throughout the story. Not for the faint of heart.

JHS/HS