Eliza and Her Monsters

Review is up on my blog <3 ninasbooktalk.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/review-eliza-and-her-monsters-by-france

The trope of someone being secretly famous but keeping it secret is one of my absolute favourites and the fact that this was a FANDOM related book made it even better. I also absolutely fell in love with Wallace <3

Okay so I rarely read books in one sitting but "Eliza and her monsters" is one of these books. And for like the first 250/300 Pages I absolutely adored it. Eliza is a great character and I found it to be so interesting to read about her Web comic and her online friends. I LOVED how online friendship was treated in this book, it was very refreshing to read. I also did love Elizas Family. Her parents were exhausting at first and I got a hell lot of second hand embarrassment when they revealed Elizas secret in a freaking newspaper article oh my god. But in the end it becomes very clear that they just tried to do their best and that all of this mess happened due to lack of communication - from both sides. Elizas brothers were amazing too! I loved them. Especially in the end. Uhm and now to Wallace. I liked him a lot. This strange kid that only speaks sometimes. The football player who writes fanfiction and has memorized every single line of "Monstrous Sea". But oh boy. Oh boy did I started to hate him in the end. Everything that seemed great about him ... just disappaered. He seemed so selfish in the end and blamed Eliza for things that were totally out of her reach. He can't pay college but she can because she worked for it. For years. And now it's her fault that he can't??? What the hell. Also it's her story???? He shouldn't even be paid to publish it in the first place. God. That made me quite angry because... wasn't he supposed to be like 18? He acted like a whiny little brat who didn't get their chocolate. Oh my god. Initially I wanted to rate this book 5 Stars. Now I am not even sure if it get's 4. I do had a lot of fun reading it. I do loved the online friends rep. I loved the illustrations and the message behind the story. But the last 100 pages was a massive let down and I am mostly feeling disappointed right now. So 3,5

WOW. Just wow. I have no words.

This was fun! But it was so similar to Radio Silence, I just couldn't separate the two in my head and nothing really was new for me. So...

5 stars - so earned! This book is brilliant. I love the representation of fandom, mental health and friendship (online and "in real life" - just like Eliza I don't really like the differentiation). I could identify with Eliza and Wallace so much, it managed to make me cry (which didn't happen in a while...). Right now, all I want to do is to keep rereading it. I just want every person in this world to read this book, I already have a few people in mind to whom I want to give it. It has already found it's place on one of my favorites shelves and will live there forever.

Wow, just wow.

maybe not quite 5 stars, more like 4.75. but this made me get out of my month long reading slump. read it in a little over a day. <3

So I guess this is a slightly unpopular opinion… All in all, it was a fast and easy read and I really wanted to like this book, but somehow it just couldn't convice me completely. I didn't warm up to Eliza, I could not fully relate to her and to be honest... she kind of annoyed me. And I also did not care about the comic pages, maybe because they were not really connected to the story, albeit they looked nice. But I really liked her family, and her friends Emmy and Max, and her dog ♥

Great story idea, weak MC. There's a bit of growth there towards the end but I never really came around to liking her. That's okay though, beacause despite my lack of smypathy for the MC this was a quick read, and I actually wish there was an MS comic.