{"id":2272,"date":"2019-04-15T20:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2019-04-15T20:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:57:52","slug":"book-review-the-montsrumologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/book-review-the-montsrumologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: “The Montsrumologist”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Monstrumologist<\/em> by Rick Yancey is the story of a young orphan boy named William James Henry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will is the assistant to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, his diseased father\u2019s employer and a Monstrumologist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book takes place in the early 20th century in the fictitious small town of New Jerusalem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the greatest qualities of this book is that when it comes to the story\u2019s antagonists, the characters lie within a grey area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their motives and morals are not black and white in the story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I have grown tired of unnecessary romances and villains who are evil solely because they were written in two seconds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this book contains both a grey and black and white, which means that all your villain needs are satisfied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this in mind, I need to commend the heroes in this book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They aren\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is more than one story arc that makes this book a page turner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve read many mystery books over the years that give their ending away preemptively ruining all the time put into the story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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