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A review by cousinrachel
Delicate Monsters by Stephanie Kuehn
3.0
I didn't feel too much for any of the characters for most of it, but I'll give it three stars for the ending, which was totally unexpected. I was anticipating something cute about Sadie getting her life together like it is in most mental health-related YA, it seems. Nope. No cuteness here.
Sadie's reasons for being a little monster never made any sort of sense. It was just stated repeatedly that she was a jerk because she could be and she found it fun, but that was it. Maybe it's just too difficult for an author to get inside the head of a person like that, but I couldn't identify with her thought processes at all. Oddly, it was hard to get mad at her for her behavior, but that might have been because I felt so detached.
Despite the end being interesting and unexpected, after the preceding events, I didn't find it believable any more than the rest of the plot was. Miles wasn't what I thought he would be from the jacket description, and Sadie seemed to be extremely out of character for the last thirty or so pages. (This is nitpicky maybe, but May's reaction to Emerson at the end did not come off authentically. Too forceful, possibly? It wasn't what I expected from her, and not in a plot-twist way.)
"Unrelatable" characters, but points for the finish that I did not see coming.
Sadie's reasons for being a little monster never made any sort of sense. It was just stated repeatedly that she was a jerk because she could be and she found it fun, but that was it. Maybe it's just too difficult for an author to get inside the head of a person like that, but I couldn't identify with her thought processes at all. Oddly, it was hard to get mad at her for her behavior, but that might have been because I felt so detached.
Despite the end being interesting and unexpected, after the preceding events, I didn't find it believable any more than the rest of the plot was. Miles wasn't what I thought he would be from the jacket description, and Sadie seemed to be extremely out of character for the last thirty or so pages. (This is nitpicky maybe, but May's reaction to Emerson at the end did not come off authentically. Too forceful, possibly? It wasn't what I expected from her, and not in a plot-twist way.)
"Unrelatable" characters, but points for the finish that I did not see coming.