The Monstrumologist

I wanted to like this book but the truth is that I just did not enjoy it very much. The first-person narrative was poorly rendered. The human characters were two-dimensional and too unbelievable in their behavior and motivations. And the Anthropophagi... well, they were just too weirdly silly for belief. A shiver of land-sharks of all things. Meh.

To get a feel for this book; first imagine Stephen King writing explicit ultra-gore scenes in the style of H.G. Wells. Now, throw in a veritable cornucopiae of wordiness, a double dose of misogyny and a dash or two of Christian symbolism. You are now scratching the surface of the problems I encountered with this story.

But... I am once again in the minority; As I write my review of this first installment in The Monstrumologist series, there are 213 total reviews on Amazon; 122 readers give it 5 stars and 58 people give it 4 stars. That is 180 out of 213 readers, (a whopping 84.5%!), that really, really like or outright love this book. I really and truly don't get it. I guess I will once again be the odd one out as I skip the sequels and move on to something that I hope will be more to my liking.

Oh, one other statistic; a staggering 12 people rate the book at 2 stars or less. Ummm... make that thirteen people...