A review by always_a_happy_ending
The Monster by L.J. Shen

5.0

I ❤️ LJ Shen. She brought her perfect a game to The Monster. I've wanted Sam and Aisling's story since the Boston Belle's series began. I wanted every sordid detail of Sam's life and Shen overdelivered. What I wasn't expecting was the detailed long running history between the two and the emotional and psychological darkness of Aisling to rival Sam's own.

Aisling intrigued me as the somewhat sidelined Belle. Friend to Sailor and the girls but seemingly not part of the inner circle, more the younger sister of Hunter (oh how I still love him and his cluelessness) and Cillian. This book gave her all the detail and inner turmoil and sadness. She was so beautifully real and suffering her own emotional traumas. She was so much more then the Sam-struck Belle of the series so far. And she came in to her own as the story progressed. I loved her fierceness making Sam earn her back.

Sam was just as dark and twisty as we've been led to believe. But he has his soft and gooey heart and