Rainy Day Reads

I’m kicking off a new series in which I will give 5 book recommendations based on a subject. And in honor of Halloween we are kicking off with monsters. I don’t read a lot of super scary books, but I still managed to find 5 books with monsters, although some of these monsters perhaps don’t fit the conventional monster stereotype. From "A Monster Calls" This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab This is part one of a duology. The story takes place in a dystopian version of our world. A city is divided between a corporation that deal out their version of justice, and a mob boss using monsters for his own gains. In this world monsters are created by bad actions - you hurt someone, you spark the creation of a monster. Both sides of the city are trying to control things in their own way, but when Kate and August get caught in the middle, the unstable equilibrium threatens to topple. Kate is the daughter of the mob boss, and she wants nothing more than to be as tough as he...

Challenges: Around the Year in 52 Books: A book with at least two perspectives (multiple points of view) In this book we follow August and Kate. They live on opposite sides of the Seam, a wall that divides their city in two. Kate is human and wants nothing more than to impress her mafia-crime-boss-like father, while August is a monster created from an act of violence. However he wants nothing more than to be human.  The two halves of the city have lived in more or less peace since a truce, but this truce is starting to fall apart, when monsters get sick of being treated like servants. Kate and August soon find themselves on the run while trying to figure out what is happening and who is behind the attacks that threaten the truce.  When I heard people talking about this book one of the main points was that there was no romance. This is true. August and Kate seem set up for the classic hate-to-love relationship in YA, but they just never quite make it ther...