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A review by odomaf
Monster in My Closet by R.L. Naquin
2.0
I have really mixed feelings about this book. It was charming and creative, with enjoyable human and inhuman characters. But the incubus plot was nasty, dark, and rapey.
WHAT I LIKED
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- Maurice may be one of my most favoritest supporting characters ever.
- The concept of the female lead attracting stray magical creatures was really fun.
- The horrid mother planning a wedding - loved to hate her.
- Kinda digging the reaper
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE
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- Okay, this incubus thing. The whole book, the female lead is all "oh my god, he's killing my friends!!", when he's really RAPING and killing her friends. Yet, that rape part seems to completely escape her. She misses some *obvious* clues regarding trouble with her *best* friend. And she's not nearly horrified enough by the sexual violence she witnesses at the end of the book. I found all of this very troubling -- to me, it in essence felt like the raping was treated as "no big deal". I liked the rest of the book so much, I'm just not sure how to even get my head around this major inconsistency.
WHAT I LIKED
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- Maurice may be one of my most favoritest supporting characters ever.
- The concept of the female lead attracting stray magical creatures was really fun.
- The horrid mother planning a wedding - loved to hate her.
- Kinda digging the reaper
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE
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- Okay, this incubus thing. The whole book, the female lead is all "oh my god, he's killing my friends!!", when he's really RAPING and killing her friends. Yet, that rape part seems to completely escape her. She misses some *obvious* clues regarding trouble with her *best* friend. And she's not nearly horrified enough by the sexual violence she witnesses at the end of the book. I found all of this very troubling -- to me, it in essence felt like the raping was treated as "no big deal". I liked the rest of the book so much, I'm just not sure how to even get my head around this major inconsistency.