A review by lostcanticles
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser

Both stories in this novel - one set in the past, another in the near future - lived up strongly to the title. The novel never loses its eerie tone, with Lyle’s narrative in the near future being scarily plausible, and Lili’s narrative in the 1980s scarily (and sadly) true. Both were cleverly written and connected only by a single sentence. I guess it doesn’t matter which story you begin with, but had I began with Lyle’s I’d have been more unnerved and apprehensive.