Monstrous by MarcyKate Connolly

Hey everyone!

 I’ve got something special planned for my blog for the month of October.

But before that, let’s get started with a monstrous story to get everyone ready for October and Halloween.

Please enjoy!

5^th Grade and Up

The city of Bryre suffers under the magic of an evil wizard, whose curse has girls sicken and disappear without a trace. Bryre’s inhabitants live in fear and no one is allowed outside after dark.

But night is the only time that Kymera can enter this dangerous city, for she must not be seen by humans. Her father says they would not understand her wings, the bolts in her neck, or her spiky tail – they would kill her. They wouldn’t understand that she was created for a purpose: to rescue the girls of Bryre.

Despite her caution, a boy names Ren sees Kym and begins to leave a rose for her every evening. As they become friends, Kym learns that Ren knows about the missing girls, the wizard, and the evil magic that haunts Bryre. And what he knows will change Kym’s life.

I know that was a very long summary but I couldn’t figure out how to make it any shorter.

It’s obvious that something more sinister is going on in this story but what exactly is a mystery. So I don’t ruin the story I won't go into detail about it.

The Brother’s Grimm fairy tales meet Frankenstein’s monster with a much cooler creature in my opinion. Eyes and claws of a cat, wings of a bird, tail of a snake and bolts of Frankenstein’s monster, Kymera is the perfect hybrid creature. Despite Kymera’s monstrous appearance, inside she is an innocent soul with a heart of gold and wants to do the right thing. Her picture on the cover of this book is what drew me to this story in the first place. Just look at her. She’s just so cute.

The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey

Rated Mature for strong language

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her ‘our little genius.’

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bit, but they don’t laugh.

Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children’s cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she’ll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn’t know why this make Miss Justineau look sad.

I found this book at Target and the summary didn’t make any sense. I hate it when a summary gives you no real clue on what the story is about (I decided to give you the same summary to show you what I mean). I wasn’t sure about this book until I found out it was being made into a movie (Release date: September 23, 2016). Here’s the movie poster:

The movie trailer gave more information. It’s basically another zombie apocalyptic, end of the world book. Can’t anyone write about the human race surviving? Like in Futurama. Then again that might be too unrealistic. I don’t know why I keep reading these ‘end of the world’ books. They are so depressing and only a handful of them are any good. I only read this one because it’s being made into a movie and I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie.

The ‘Hungrys’, as they are called in the book, aren’t exactly zombies, more zombie-like. It’s some sort of fungus. They try to explain it but I don’t really get it. Zombies are one of my favorite monsters and I was happy when more books, TV shows and movies came out about them. People have come up with many different types of zombies and I’m happy to say that this book has come up with a new original type of zombie. Check out the video ‘Top 10 Zombie Types in Movies and TV’ from WatchMojo.com on YouTube if you want to learn more about zombies.

The thing is that I don’t know when or if this movie will be in theaters in the U.S. since the book and movie originate in the U.K. If not I hope to watch it on DVD.