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Monster High
255 pages
A snappy, spooky-chic dive into the ultimate high school nightmare: trying to fit in when you are literally built differently.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like walking the halls of a high school where the social hierarchy is a literal matter of life, death, and reanimation. The pace is brisk and gossipy, driven by the desperate, universal teenage desire to fit in, but layered with a playful, spooky-chic atmosphere. It captures the energetic angst of navigating cliques, rumors, and the terrifying vulnerability of making new friends while hiding your true self. The prose is snappy and trendy, perfectly suited for readers who devour stories about secret identities and unlikely alliances. It delights tweens and teens looking for a fresh, fashionable twist on classic high school drama, where the real horror is not the monsters, but the pressure to be normal.
- Mood
- spooky-chic
- angsty
- energetic
- Tone
- playful
- dramatic
- trendy
- gossipy
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- the horrors of fitting in · secret identities · unlikely friendships · high school social dynamics
- The writing
- Snappy, fashion-forward, and conversational, blending typical teenage vernacular with clever supernatural twists.
- The arc
- Moves from the anxious excitement of starting fresh to the tense vulnerability of trusting an outsider with a massive secret.
- Who it's for
- Tweens and teens who love high-stakes social drama mixed with a fun, fashionable monster twist.
Content notes
- social exclusion
- high school anxiety
About the book
From Lisi Harrison, the author of The Clique and Alphas, comes a new series with a fresh twist on high school, romance, and the horrors of trying to fit in.
They prefer to call themselves RAD (Regular Attribute Dodgers), but some call them monsters. So far, the "monster" community has kept a low profile in Salem, but this year two new girls enroll at Master High School, and the town will never be the same.
Created just fifteen days ago, Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father's formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties and cheer-leading. But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters who might be stalking the halls, Frankie finds that life in the "normi" world can be rough for a chic freak like her.
She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver--but can a ''normi'' be trusted with her big secret?
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