ela_35 's review for:

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

2.0

emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 This book was fine, but not for me. 

I liked the idea of this book, but there were some things that happened that I didn’t really like. 

I liked Wallace but I didn’t think that he was developed enough. I liked Max and Emmy, but they weren’t shown enough. I liked Eliza when she was with her friends, but I really disliked her around her family. She kind of ignores her brothers and she’s hostile towards her parents, and to me at least, it seemed completely unjustified. She does the stereotypical thing of her parents ‘not getting her’, and that would have been fine, if her parents hadn’t tried to get close to her. Their interests didn’t really overlap, but how were her parents supposed to get along with her when she never tried to talk to them? They tried to include her in family time as they wanted to spend time with their daughter, and instead she was rude and just kept repeating that they didn’t understand her. Eliza got particularly angry when they mentioned Eliza trying to live outside of the internet. Once again, she never tried to explain to them what the internet meant to her. 

I liked the idea of the webcomic, and the drawings that are included in this book, especially the mecha. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention, but I didn’t understand what the ending was, and the plot wasn’t shown. It felt like the whole webcomic was that two people were invincible and only they could kill each other. 

I didn’t like how this book wrapped up. Eliza’s online identity is found out (which is something that I really don’t like when it’s the conflict of the book), and then the time passes by really quickly, which she spends in bed, and slowly starts to go on walks with her dog and going to school again. 

This book was fine, but some of the things that happened just weren’t for me.