The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey is the story of a young orphan boy named William James Henry.
Will is the assistant to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, his diseased father’s employer and a Monstrumologist.
Will never truly understands what a Monstrumologist is until a series of deaths tosses him and his employer into a world of mystery and horror.
The book takes place in the early 20th century in the fictitious small town of New Jerusalem.
One of the greatest qualities of this book is that when it comes to the story’s antagonists, the characters lie within a grey area.
Their motives and morals are not black and white in the story.
Personally, I have grown tired of unnecessary romances and villains who are evil solely because they were written in two seconds.
I understand that I might be in the minority, but I think that books can have multiple antagonists with villains that can be relatable in their motives.
However, this book contains both a grey and black and white, which means that all your villain needs are satisfied.
In this book, the heroes have to face the ancient species known as anthropophagi, which is a creature that looks like a human without a head and a mouth across its chest.
With this in mind, I need to commend the heroes in this book.
They aren’t your typical white knights and they have their dark moments and secrets that make the book worth reading and they are flawed in a way that makes their story interesting.
There is more than one story arc that makes this book a page turner.
The one issue I have with the book is that it starts off slow, but once it starts going, it makes it worth the wait.
I’ve read many mystery books over the years that give their ending away preemptively ruining all the time put into the story.
This book is an exception that I truly believe is a story that every horror and mystery lover should read if they want a story that stands out from the norm.
