A review by see_sadie_read
City of Monsters by Andrea Speed

3.0

Oh, it's a novella, how disappointing. How did I miss that fact? I'm not a huge fan of the medium, not enough time to develop a full story in my opinion. However, for a novella it's all right. Nightshade and the world created was interesting. The narrator had a sarcastic style that I could appreciate and some of the side characters were fun. But I thought there was a lot more potential to this story than was actually delivered. Some of this is because it was crammed into 80 pages, but could easily have been expanded to fit more. This would have allowed for a more natural progression of events and exploration of circumstances, feelings, relationships, etc. Much of this was missing, especially toward the end and in the interactions of Hunger and Sakari. I also found I didn't particularly care for either of the main characters. Hunter was decidedly self-serving and Sakari just came across as smug and arrogant. In the end, I'm not disappointed to have read the book but I'm not running out to tell my friends about it either.