Book Review

All These Monsters

Amy Tintera

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TTheme: Verbal and physical abuse can push someone to their limits. "Would I be like Momwho swore up and down that Dad hadent been amining that chair for my head?How long until my reality bent just like Moms did?" page 43

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Clara is ready to fight back. Fight back against her abusive father, fight back against the only life she's ever known, and most of all, fight back against scrabs, the earth-dwelling monsters that are currently ravaging the world.

Chacterization: Focusing on Clara, you can see her character develop and become independent with every situation she is facing. At first, she is the girl who runs away from her past, with no money and not knowing anyone. She quickly gets recognised for her fighting skills by her team leader, Julian, who feeds her when he finds out that she is coming to training hungry. Despite that, Clara can take care of herself on her own. She forms friendships and alliances, which is something she never knew she would have.

Setting: Clara lives in an alternative timeline of Texas, where monsters called Scrabs began popping up around the world in the 2010. But it also happen in London where is where she stars fighting the scarbs off.

TPlot: What drastically changed the stroy was when Clara ran away to fight off scarbs, but also escape her abusive father. It changed up the stroy by her getting strongerand getting better to fight off the wcarbs and actually making friends.