Book Review: Monster High by Lisi Harrison

 
Monster High by Lisi Harrison

Publisher: Poppy

Publish Date: September 1, 2010

Hardcover, 272 pages

My Review:
Why I read this:  I love The Clique series by Lisi Harrison and this premise sounded very intriguing so I signed up as soon as Book It Forward Tours put it up.

How is the novel driven: Characters are the star, but the plot drives as well.  I loved getting all the setup for the series in this book - it was well-done, and still enough story to go along with the set-up to really enjoy it.

My thoughts:  What made this book really interesting to me is that it wasn't cut and dried who the good guys were and who the bad guys were.  You thought you knew after one episode in the beginning, but truthfully there were two different cliques and there was friction between them, but seeing it from both sides I saw that neither was particularly in the wrong.

Both Melody and Frankie are new girls and learning to fit in at the high school.  Melody is a normal girl in an area that is filled with Monsters, though people don't know that.  Frankie was created by her parents and is one of the monsters, but she just wants to be who she is not some put on person.  Her naivete coupled with her pop culture knowledge made her a great character to watch develop.  Melody on the other hand was an ordinary girl until her father helped her along with some cosmetic surgery, now she is the girl all the girls are jealous of at her new school and this causes problems.  Not to mention the one guy she is interested in seems to  have two very different sides.

As the monster community collides with the normal community mayhem ensues and the book ends settling matters in one way but setting things up for the next book which I am eagerly awaiting.  I really like both Melody and Frankie and look forward to learning more about the monster community that Lisi Harrison has created in this book.


My Rating:  4.5/5.0

About the Book:
From Lisi Harrison, the New York Times bestselling 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.

The monster community has kept a low profile at the local high school, but when two new girls enroll, 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 prom.

But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters stalking the halls, Frankie learns that high school can be rough for a chic freak like her. She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver-but can a "normie" be trusted with her big secret?

About the Author:
Lisi Harrison was the Senior Director of Production Development at MTV, and was responsible for creating and developing original programming for air on MTV. She also served as Head Writer for MTV Production and before that had her own column in Jane Magazine.

Lisi lives in Laguna Beach, California, and is currently working on her next Alphas novel, coming in April 2010, as well as her next Clique novel.

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