Monstrumologist

I just recently finished all the four books in the series by Rick Yancey. I hope you know who he is because he is defiantly an exceptional author. The first time I have ever heard of him is when I read the Alfred Kropp trilogy back in middle school and I really liked those books but I was so disappointed when I found out there was only three books in the series. Because I really liked Alfred, he wasn’t your usual protagonist he was bit odd in his own special way. Just like Will Henry the protagonist of the Monstrumologist series who was alike Alfred in which they both shared a series of misfortune in their lives.

When I began to read the first book Monsrumologist I didn’t expect the book to be so…ghoulish. I was eating lunch when I first started reading it. I actually had to put the book down several times because the description inside was making me nauseated. But you would too if you read the part when they had to detach the Anthropophagi from that girl’s corpse because apparently it was eating her face off with a mouth on his chest. But even though the book was a credibly gruesome that even when I dared my younger brother to read that passage and he was unable to make it halfway the page because he was to freaked out to continue on reading. But I couldn’t stop because it was to addictive not to read on

This series is a bit strange itself because it was written in a way that the main character Will Henry was an old man writing a journal when he was younger and was an assistant to a monstrumologist which was someone who studies aberrant biological organism or in other words monsters. But it was also written as if the author was actually editing Will Henry’s journal to be a book series. I actually believed that was true until the third book when I looked up online how many books were left in the series and found out that it was part of the story line. I didn’t really believe the monster part but I really believed the part when Mr. Yancey was actually going through Will Henry’s journal. I was a bit disappointed and relieved at the same time because I was disappointed because it would have been incredible if there was an actual Will Henry alive even if it isn’t the one who faced the actual monsters. But I was relieved because I felt so bad for Will Henry who died having so much tragedy in his life and to die so terribly alone

But the point of these entire blog is to acclaim this series because I entirely enjoyed it. But I am also recommending it to anyone who would be interested in this kind of genre which is horror. I just hope I didn’t give a way too much of the storyline and make it uninteresting to anyone because it is anything but that. This story will make you sleep at night and never be able to put it down.